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Definition of Synchronic
1. Adjective. Occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase. "Synchronous oscillations"
Similar to: Coetaneous, Coeval, Contemporaneous, Coexistent, Coexisting, Co-occurrent, Coincident, Coincidental, Coinciding, Concurrent, Cooccurring, Simultaneous, Contemporaneous, Contemporary, Parallel, Synchronised, Synchronized
Derivative terms: Synchronicity, Synchrony, Synchroneity, Synchrony
Antonyms: Asynchronous
2. Adjective. Concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents. "Synchronic linguistics"
Also: Synchronal, Synchronous
Antonyms: Diachronic
3. Adjective. (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time.
Definition of Synchronic
1. Adjective. occurring at a specific point in time. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: linguistics) relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Synchronic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Synchronic
Literary usage of Synchronic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Divine Pedigree of Man, Or, The Testimony of Evolution and Psychology to by Thomson Jay Hudson (1899)
"synchronic Action of the Two Minds. — Genius. — The Brain not the Organ of the
Subjective Mind. — The Dual Mind normally controlled by the Objective Mind. ..."
2. English Psychology by Théodule Ribot (1891)
"synchronic order, or that of simultaneous existence, is order in space ; successive
order, or that of anterior and posterior existence, is order in time. ..."
3. Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 by Edward Carlos Carter (1999)
"Because such a grammar was felt to reflect world view at a particular moment in
time, it was necessarily synchronic and made no attempt to describe the ..."
4. Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century by Japan Nōshōmushō, Haruki Yamawaki (1904)
"This example will be followed in the other principal offices, synchronic SIGNALLER.
— The synchronic signal of noon that had been carried on by hand-worked ..."
5. Basic Concepts in the Methodology of the Social Sciences by Johann Mouton, H. C. Marais (1988)
"synchronic/ cross-sectional studies are those in which a given ... This distinction
between synchronic and diachronic research would apply to most of the ..."
6. Not by Bread Alone: The Principles of Human Nutrition by Harvey Washington Wiley (1915)
"... am an advocate of that course of life which would keep all of the organs in
synchronic usefulness ending in synchronic decay. ..."
7. Electricity: What is It? by W. Denham Verschoyle (1908)
"In accordance with Principle IV we should then find aggregates of two or more
synchronic members, and as the size of the epochs grew, the number of these ..."
8. The Divine Pedigree of Man, Or, The Testimony of Evolution and Psychology to by Thomson Jay Hudson (1899)
"synchronic Action of the Two Minds. — Genius. — The Brain not the Organ of the
Subjective Mind. — The Dual Mind normally controlled by the Objective Mind. ..."
9. English Psychology by Théodule Ribot (1891)
"synchronic order, or that of simultaneous existence, is order in space ; successive
order, or that of anterior and posterior existence, is order in time. ..."
10. Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930 by Edward Carlos Carter (1999)
"Because such a grammar was felt to reflect world view at a particular moment in
time, it was necessarily synchronic and made no attempt to describe the ..."
11. Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century by Japan Nōshōmushō, Haruki Yamawaki (1904)
"This example will be followed in the other principal offices, synchronic SIGNALLER.
— The synchronic signal of noon that had been carried on by hand-worked ..."
12. Basic Concepts in the Methodology of the Social Sciences by Johann Mouton, H. C. Marais (1988)
"synchronic/ cross-sectional studies are those in which a given ... This distinction
between synchronic and diachronic research would apply to most of the ..."
13. Not by Bread Alone: The Principles of Human Nutrition by Harvey Washington Wiley (1915)
"... am an advocate of that course of life which would keep all of the organs in
synchronic usefulness ending in synchronic decay. ..."
14. Electricity: What is It? by W. Denham Verschoyle (1908)
"In accordance with Principle IV we should then find aggregates of two or more
synchronic members, and as the size of the epochs grew, the number of these ..."
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