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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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