adj
Meaning 1
Occurring at a specific point in time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: diachronic
Standard Lemma guide
synchronic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
Received-Pronunciation: /sɪnˈkɹɒnɪk/
-
Received-Pronunciation: [sɪŋˈkɹɒnɪk]
-
Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /sɪnˈkɹɑnɪk/
-
Atlantic-Canada, General-American: [sɪŋˈkɹɑnɪk]
-
CMU ARPABET: S IH0 NG K R AA1 N IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: diachronic
adjective
Meaning 3
concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- synchronic linguistics
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: diachronic
adjective
Meaning 4
occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase- Jour.A.M.A.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- recovery was synchronous with therapy
- a synchronous set of clocks
- the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight
- synchronous oscillations
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: synchronous, synchronal
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
(of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -ic; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: համաժամանակյա (hamažamanakya) — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Catalan: sincrònic — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Chinese Mandarin: 共時的 /共时的 (gòngshí de) — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Czech: synchronní — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Danish: synkron — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Esperanto: sinkrona — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Estonian: sünkrooniline — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Finnish: synkroninen — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- French: synchronique — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- German: synchron — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Hungarian: szinkrón — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Ido: sinkrona — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Indonesian: sinkron — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Italian: sincrono — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Japanese: 共時的 (kyōjiteki) — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Kashmiri: اۆک زَمٲنؠ (ok zamạ̄n') — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Mongolian: хам цагийн (xam cagiin) — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠮ ᠴᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ (qam čaɣ-ün) — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Norman: synchronique — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Norwegian Bokmål: synkron — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Norwegian Nynorsk: synkron — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Occitan: sincronic — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Polish: synchroniczny — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Portuguese: síncrono — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Serbo-Croatian: sinkron — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Slovak: synchrónny — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Spanish: síncrono — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Swedish: synkronisk — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Swedish: synkron — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Turkish: senkronik — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Ukrainian: синхронний (synxronnyj) — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
- Vietnamese: đồng đại — relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history
Real reading context