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US
/sɪˈnɑptɪk/
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[ UK /sɪnˈɒptɪk/ ]
[ UK /sɪnˈɒptɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament
synoptic sayings -
presenting a summary or general view of a whole
a synoptic presentation of a physical theory
How To Use synoptic In A Sentence
- Churchland's strengths lie primarily in her synoptic view of the behavioral sciences.
- To belong to a place, Joyce suggests, one must have both intimate knowledge and skeptical distance, the particulate experience of the street along with the synoptic view of the map.
- I'm... I'm synaptic, while, while you're synoptic... "He smelled strange, Shadow realized. AMERICAN GODS
- He was the first person to ask about the intentions of Jesus, and one of the first to raise serious questions about the relationship of John's gospel to the synoptics.
- Only these ‘smart’ systems can allow us to think and act synoptically on a planetary scale.
- On the other hand, several features of the Johannine presentation of Jesus have long seemed to possess their own claims to historicity, even over and against the Synoptics. Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity
- Their collective objective is to develop potent software to process the estimated 30 terabytes of astronomy imagery (think 12 billion five-megapixel photos) that will stream nightly from the newly built Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST, slated to go online in 2013. Google and NASA Build a Search Engine for the Stars | Impact Lab
- These two sites, with fat files of stars, listed in alphabetical order by first name, offer a synoptic pictorial history of actresses in various states of dishabille.
- It is precisely this complex of ideas in the oldest layer of the synoptic tradition which is the object of our consideration.
- Finally, our model provides a more synoptic view of pilferage effects than found in any of these previous papers.