Synchronize vs Inharmony - What's the difference?
synchronize | inharmony |
To cause two or more events to happen at exactly the same time, at the same rate, or in a time-coordinated way. To harmonize in regard to time.
To occur at the same time or with coordinated timing.
* De Quincey
Lack of harmony.
* 1909 , , "What I Saw of Shiloh" in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I :
* 1912 , , The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance , ch. 22:
As a verb synchronize
is to cause two or more events to happen at exactly the same time, at the same rate, or in a time-coordinated way to harmonize in regard to time.As a noun inharmony is
lack of harmony.synchronize
English
(Synchronization)Alternative forms
* synchronise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(synchroniz)- The path of this great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity.
Derived terms
(terms derived from synchronize) * synchronisation/synchronization * synch * synchroniser/synchronizer * sync * synchrony * synchronicity * synchicity * synchronized swimming * synchronized skatinginharmony
English
Noun
- Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?
- Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony .