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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}, {synchronic}] [ant: {asynchronous}]
2: concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a
particular period without considering historical antecedents;
"synchronic linguistics" [ant: {diachronic}, {historical}]
3: (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time