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• ync /sink/ n., vi. (var. `synch') 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization.
  2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk...
• flush: v. 1. To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
  All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [UNIX/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an `fflush(3)' call....
• crash: 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system} (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• flush v. 1. [common] To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
  All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [Unix/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an fflush(3) call....
• ap: 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program.
  In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program....
• crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• N: /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
  "There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...
• blast: 1. vt.,n. Synonym for {BLT}, used esp. for large data sends over a network or comm line.
  Opposite of {snarf}. Usage: uncommon. The variant `blat' has been reported....
• ate: n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your latest hack?
  It's winning away." "The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally {wedged} state....