synchronic

  • (a) 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
    synchronal, synchronous,
  • (a) concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents
    • synchronic linguistics
  • (s) (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time

Synonyms

synchronal synchronous

Antonyms

asynchronous diachronic historical

See also

synchronal synchronous

Words of close approximity

synchrony
synchronal
synchronicity synchronic linguistics