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synchronic

[ US /sɪŋˈkɹɑnɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents
    synchronic linguistics
  2. occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
    recovery was synchronous with therapy
    the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight
    a synchronous set of clocks
    synchronous oscillations
  3. (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time

How To Use synchronic In A Sentence

  • Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
  • As for the remaining four songs, 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' and 'Tea In The Sahara' are doomy ciphers, the former possibly about marriage, the latter open to a handful of interpretations, none of them exactly upbeat, while 'Synchronicity I' is a trifle explaining the title concept and the monster hit 'Every Breath You Take', is ostensibly a trite love song with it's icy and obsessive core just barely concealed. Synchronicity
  • Often investigating history will allow us to understand why some puzzling synchronic details are the way they are.
  • His notion of synchronicity is that there is an acausal principle that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially.
  • Alert people scan their environment continually for patterns, opportunities, and synchronicity.
  • Rapley balances this diachronic argument with a more synchronic survey of convent life and the teaching activities of the nuns.
  • He described synchronicity as an acausal principle that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time.
  • A curious night then followed in which several strange synchronicities happened.
  • He's identifying the ungrammatical strings that the grammar should not describe; he's doing modern empirical synchronic syntax.
  • There are two ways that the laws of deductive logic have been thought to provide rational constraints on belief: (1) Synchronically, the laws of deductive logic can be used to define the notion of deductive consistency and inconsistency. Bayesian Epistemology
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