SYN

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Syn or SYN may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

In music

• The Syn, a band formerly including bassist Chris Squire of Yes
• SYN (band), formed by Japanese musician Halca
• Synyster Gates, lead guitarist of the band Avenged Sevenfold

Fictional characters

• Doctor Syn, in novels by Russell Thorndike
• Grand Admiral Peccati Syn, in the Star Wars expanded universe

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• SYN Media, a youth media organization based in Melbourne, Australia
• Broadcast syndication, in which the right to broadcast a television program has been sold to multiple independent stations

In science and technology

• Syn addition, in organic chemistry
• Synonym (taxonomy), a system of accepted alternative names for species
• SYN (TCP), synchronise packet in transmission control protocol (TCP)
• Synchronous idle (␖), one of the C0 and C1 control codes
• SYN (OSC), a standardized namespace within Open Sound Control (OSC)

Other uses

• Syn (goddess), in Norse mythology
• Synergy, cooperation between two groups
• Coalition of Left, of Movements and Ecology (Synaspismós, abbreviated SYN or ΣΥΝ), a Greek political party
• Syn, a food counting system in the Slimming World weight-loss competition