Associations to the word «Synchronic»

Wiktionary

SYNCHRONIC, adjective. Occurring at a specific point in time.
SYNCHRONIC, adjective. (linguistics) relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.

Dictionary definition

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".
SYNCHRONIC, adjective. Concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics".
SYNCHRONIC, adjective. (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time.

Wise words

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery