Synchronic - Definition
synchronic
adj 1: 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" [syn: synchronous,
synchronal, synchronic] [ant: asynchronous]
2: concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a
particular period without considering historical antecedents;
"synchronic linguistics" [ant: diachronic, historical]
3: (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time