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

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