/sink/ (Or "synCh") 1. To synChronise, to bring into synChronisation. 2. To forCe ("flush") all pending buffered disk writes to the disk. 3. More generally, to forCe a number of Competing proCesses or agents to a state that would be "safe" if the system were to Crash, i.e. to CheCkpoint in the database sense. [Jargon File] (1994-11-11)