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/sink/ , vi. (var.: synch ) 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization. 2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk; see flush , sense 2. 3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or agents to a state that would be safe if the system were to crash; thus, to checkpoint (in the database-theory sense).
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