Unsynchronizes

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To cause something to lose coordinated timing or alignment; to disrupt the simultaneous operation or occurrence of events; to desynchronize or break synchronization between components
2. To make a previously coordinated process or system fall out of sync; to interrupt or disturb synchronized functioning or timing; to cause elements to no longer operate in harmony
3. To disturb the timing such that previously synchronized actions or events no longer coincide; to break the simultaneous coordination of parts; to cause loss of synchronization in a system or sequence

Etymology: "Unsynchronizes" is simply "unsynchronize" with the third-person "-s" ending, so the verb's history is the history of its parts. "Synchronize" came into English in the 1600s from Late Latin "synchronizare," itself from Greek "synkhronizein," built from "syn-" meaning "together" and "khronos," meaning "time." The "un-" prefix, an Old English element meaning "not" or "reverse," was attached to make a verb that undoes the action: to take things that were running together and throw them out of step. Both halves are ordinary English formations. "Unsynchronize" is a rare word, mostly used in engineering, electronics, and computing, where signals or processes that once kept time together drift apart. Its earliest uses are recent relative to "synchronize," and the "un-" form is far less common than the base verb, so it reads as a technical coinage rather than an old word that has been worn smooth by use.

Synonyms: desynchronizes, decouples, disengages, disassociates, disconnects

Antonyms: synchronizes, aligns, coordinates, matches, harmonizes