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synchronic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective synchronic has 3 senses
- synchronic(a = adj.all) synchronal, synchronous - occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; "recovery was synchronous with therapy"; "a synchronous set of clocks"; "the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight"; "synchronous oscillations" Derived forms noun synchronicity1, noun synchrony1
- synchronic(a = adj.all) Array - concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics" Antonym: diachronic
- synchronic(s = adj.all) Array - (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time; Array Derived form noun synchronicity1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
synchronic, adj. describing a subject (esp. a language) as it exists at one point in time (opp. DIACHRONIC).
Derivative
synchronically adv.
Etymology
LL synchronus: see SYNCHRONOUS
ROGET THESAURUS
synchronic
Synchronism
N synchronism, coexistence, coincidence, simultaneousness, simultaneity, concurrence, concomitance, unity of time, interim, isochronism, contemporary, coetanian, synchronous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronical, synchronistical, simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent, coeval, coevous, contemporary, contemporaneous, coetaneous, coeternal, isochronous, at the same time, simultaneously, together, in concert, during the same time, in the same breath, pari passu, in the interim, as one, at the very moment, just as, as soon as, meanwhile.
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