Synchronic

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]


              [ant: {asynchronous}]
       2: concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a
          particular period without considering historical
          antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive
          linguistics" [syn: {descriptive}] [ant: {diachronic}]
       3: (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time