In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
SYNC
synchronize, synchronise, sync
(verb) make synchronous and adjust in time or manner; “Let’s synchronize our efforts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sync (usually uncountable, plural syncs)
(informal) Clipping of synchronization.
(informal) Harmony.
(informal, music) A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films.
Verb
sync (third-person singular simple present syncs, present participle syncing or synching, simple past and past participle synced or synched)
(informal) To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.
(informal, computing) To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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