Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"occurring at the same time," 1775, shortening of synchronical (1650s), from Late Latin synchronus "simultaneous" (see synchronous). Linguistic sense is first recorded 1922, probably a borrowing from French synchronique (de Saussure, 1913). Synchronal "simultaneous" is from 1650s. Related: synchronically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 occurring at a specific point in time. 2 (context linguistics English) relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.
WordNet
adj. 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]
concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics"; "descriptive linguistics" [syn: descriptive] [ant: diachronic]
(of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time
Wikipedia
Synchronic may refer to:
- Synchrony (linguistics), the analysis of a language at a specific point of time
- Synchronicity, the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner
- Synchronization, the coordination of events to operate a system in unison
Usage examples of "synchronic".
In this respect, the decline and fall of Empire is defined not as a diachronic movement but as a synchronic reality.
If I keep here to a synchronic sketch of contemporary myths, it is for an objective reason: our society is the privileged field of mythical significations.
The Americans went in for synchronic sweet and savoury, a sign of their salvation, unlike the timid Latin races.