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the quiet miracle of many things agreeing to be one thing at once
means To make two or more things—clocks, devices, files, dancers—match up and operate in perfect time with each other.
from A 20th-century clipping of "synchronize," which traces back through Latin to the Greek "synkhronos," meaning "happening at the same time"—from "syn-" (together) and "khronos" (time). The short form "sync" rose with the machine age, when film, sound, and eventually data all needed to agree on the same heartbeat.
- fireflies
- Whole forests of them blink in unison nightly
- metronomes
- Placed on a moving base, they self-synchronize
- menstrual myth
- Cycle syncing among friends is largely unproven
- power grids
- Continents share one synchronized 50 or 60 Hz heartbeat
- heart cells
- Separate heart cells in a dish beat together
apple icloud sync — apple's cross-device synchronization service launched 2011, syncs photos, contacts, and documents across iphone, ipad, mac
google drive sync — google's cloud synchronization service that keeps files updated across devices in real-time, launched 2012
dropbox file sync — dropbox's automatic file synchronization service founded 2008, syncs folders across computers and mobile devices