Syn·chro·nize

Wondering what it exactly meant, so looked it up in Merrian-Webster

Main Entry: syn·chro·nize
Pronunciation: 'si[ng]-kr&-"nIz, 'sin-
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -nized; -niz·ing
Date: circa 1624
intransitive senses : to happen at the same time
transitive senses
1 : to represent or arrange (events) to indicate coincidence or coexistence
2 : to make synchronous in operation
3 : to make (motion-picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action
- syn·chro·niz·er noun

So looked further:
syn·chro·nous
Pronunciation: 'si[ng]-kr&-n&s, 'sin-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin synchronos, from Greek, from syn- + chronos time
Date: 1669
1 : happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time
2 : recurring or operating at exactly the same periods
3 : involving or indicating synchronism
4 a : having the same period; also : having the same period and phase b : GEOSTATIONARY
5 : of, used in, or being digital communication (as between computers) in which a common timing signal is established that dictates when individual bits can be transmitted, in which characters are not individually delimited, and which allows for very high rates of data transfer

and more important:
co·in·cide
Pronunciation: "kO-&n-'sId, 'kO-&n-"
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cid·ed; -cid·ing
Etymology: Medieval Latin coincidere, from Latin co- + incidere to fall on, from in- + cadere to fall -- more at CHANCE
Date: 1719
1 a : to occupy the same place in space or time b : to occupy exactly corresponding or equivalent positions on a scale or in a series
2 : to correspond in nature, character, or function
3 : to be in accord or agreement

What is co·in·ci·dence?
What is syn·chro·nize?

Some things seems strange some times, but isn't it because we let them?
Isn't it because we remark it?
Because everything is random in this world.
And suddenly because we see something peculiar that has to do with the linking in our head, we consider it 'a strange coincidence', 'a synchonisation'.

I am still convinced we want it to be coincidence, synchronisation
Without those links in our head, there wouldn't be...
There just would be randomness.

Makes me think...

(Funny remark: these words only existed since 1600 and later, didn't they think about this before? How did they explain coincidence before those times...)

Posted on October 29, 2003
in Limit of my knowledge

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