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a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) ii. 191 Comparing the affairs of Egypt with the synchronizing affairs of the Greeks and Hebrews.

1840 T. De Quincey Mod. Superstition in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 555/1 To suppose, that by some synchronising miracle, the constellation had been then specially called into existence.

1880 Echo 24 Dec. 3/4 The synchronising..of clocks..by means of pneumatic motive power transmitted through tubes..which has been found to answer admirably in Paris.

1882 C. Wood in Argosy 34 136 We become comparatively intimate; there is a sympathy, a power of ‘synchronizing’.

1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. iii. 61 If a ship falls in with waves of synchronising period,..her rolling will then be the heaviest.

1901 A. Russell in Electr. Rev. 19 July 88/2 The synchronising current.

1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 136/1 In the latter case the synchronising signals must be transmitted over a channel separate from the picture channel [in phototelegraphy].

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station iv. 68 The ‘synchronizing gear’, enabling a machine-gun to fire through the tractor air-screw.

1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures i. 3 The earliest practical attempts at synchronizing, i.e. keeping speech and gesture perfectly in phase.

1943 Gloss. Terms Telecomm. (B.S.I.) 35 Synchronising, the adjustment of the frequency of the time base to bear an integral relationship to the frequency of the phenomenon under investigation.

1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production ii. 20 (caption) The component parts of the video signal..synchronizing level.