[
US
/sɪŋˈkɹɑnɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
-
concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents
synchronic linguistics -
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 - (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