Hypertext Webster Gateway: "synchronic"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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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