[QUOTE] [B][SIZE=4]"synchronic"[/SIZE][/B] [B]adjective[/B] [LIST=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: [URL=http://www.word.sc/synchronous]synchronous[/URL], [URL=http://www.word.sc/synchronal]synchronal[/URL]] [ant: [URL=http://www.word.sc/asynchronous]asynchronous[/URL]] [*]concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics" [syn: [URL=http://www.word.sc/descriptive]descriptive[/URL]] [ant: [URL=http://www.word.sc/diachronic]diachronic[/URL]] [*](of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time [/LIST] Source: [URL=http://www.word.sc/synchronic]http://www.word.sc/synchronic[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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