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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A friend is editing a manuscript on a device that the author describes as a “heat sync”—and she’s found quite a lot of hits of “heat sync” on Google. It should be “heat sink,” of course. Interesting to think that so many people have some idea that these things synchronize heat—or else they’ve stopped thinking about what “sync” means! I guess “sink” doesn’t seem sensible to them, and “sync” seems more technical, so they go with it.
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