syncing
USSING-king/ˈsɪŋ.kɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of sync.
The app is syncing your contacts across every device you own.
Syncing the two calendars prevented any scheduling conflicts.
Note
A clipped verb doing two grammatical jobs. After a form of be it builds the progressive (the phone is still syncing). As a gerund it heads a noun phrase (syncing the calendars took minutes). The clipping, short for synchronize, keeps an informal edge. In computing it can also mean flushing pending writes to disk, not just matching two copies of data.
syncing is a form of sync
sync, verb: To synchronize, especially data across devices, clocks, or music matched with video. Full entry
- Spelling
- sync → syncing: add -ing
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