SYNCHRONIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does synchronic mean? 

• SYNCHRONIC (adjective)
  The adjective SYNCHRONIC has 3 senses:

1. occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase

2. concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents

3. (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time

  Familiarity information: SYNCHRONIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNCHRONIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase

Synonyms:

synchronal; synchronic; synchronous

Context example:

synchronous oscillations

Similar:

coetaneous; coeval; contemporaneous (of the same period)

coexistent; coexisting (existing at the same time)

co-occurrent; coincident; coincidental; coinciding; concurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous (occurring or operating at the same time)

contemporaneous; contemporary (occurring in the same period of time)

parallel (of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations)

synchronic ((of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time)

synchronised; synchronized (operating in unison)

Also:

synchronic (concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents)

Derivation:

synchronicity; synchrony (the relation that exists when things occur at the same time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents

Context example:

synchronic linguistics

Also:

synchronal; synchronic; synchronous (occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase)

Domain category:

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

Antonym:

diachronic (used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time

Similar:

synchronal; synchronic; synchronous (occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase)

Derivation:

synchronicity (the relation that exists when things occur at the same time)