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synchronic definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1833 1. synchronous 2. a. descriptive 4 <synchronic linguistics> b. concerned with events existing in a limited time period and ignoring historical antecedents • synchronical adjective • synchronically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. describing a subject (esp. a language) as it exists at one point in time (opp. DIACHRONIC). Derivatives: synchronically adv. Etymology: LL synchronus: see SYNCHRONOUS