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synchronic |
1 definition found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: synchronic adj 1: occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; "recovery was synchronous with therapy"- Jour.A.M.A.; "a synchronous set of clocks"; "the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight"; "synchronous oscillations" [syn: {synchronous}, {synchronal}] [ant: {asynchronous}] 2: concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics" [syn: {descriptive}] [ant: {diachronic}] 3: (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time
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