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The relation that exists when things occur at the same time
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synchrony
Word definitions for synchrony in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"occurrence or existence at the same time," 1848, from Greek synkhronos (see synchronous ) + -y (2).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synchrony \Syn"chro*ny\, n. The concurrence of events in time; synchronism. [R.] Geological contemporaneity is the same as chronological synchrony. --Huxley.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Synchrony may refer to: Synchronization , the coordination of events to operate a system in unison Synchrony and diachrony , viewpoints in linguistic analysis Synchrony (Dune) , a fictional planet "Synchrony" (The X-Files) , an episode of the American science ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the relation that exists when things occur at the same time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves" [syn: synchronism , synchronicity , synchroneity , synchronization , synchronisation , synchronizing ] [ant: asynchronism , asynchronism ...
Usage examples of synchrony.
In every case, these feats of synchrony occur spontaneously, almost as if nature has an eerie yearning for order.
An equally mundane kind of synchrony is triggered by a reaction to a common stimulus.
When two things keep happening simultaneously for an extended period of time, the synchrony is probably not an accident.
And the result of those conversations is often synchrony, in which all the oscillators begin to move as one.
Pockets of synchrony continued to emerge and grow, until as many as a dozen fireflies were blinking on and off in perfect concert.
Can perfect synchrony emerge from a cacophony of thousands of mindless metronomes?
Most women are familiar with the phenomenon of menstrual synchrony, in which sisters, roommates, close friends, or coworkers find that their periods tend to start around the same time.
Long dismissed as anecdotal, menstrual synchrony was first documented scientifically by Martha McClintock, then an undergraduate psychology major at Wellesley, an all-female college in Massachusetts.
The biochemical push and pull between them does not always coerce them into synchrony, unlike the firefly species in Southeast Asia that synchronize their flashes all night long, every night of the year.
The resulting positive feedback process led to a runaway, accelerating outbreak of synchrony, in which many oscillators rushed to join the emerging consensus.
John David Crawford, a physicist at the University of Pittsburgh, was able to apply insights won from the study of biological synchrony to solve a long-standing problem about the behavior of plasmas.
In 1995, the biologists David Welsh and Steve Reppert at Massachusetts General Hospital discovered that the brain does contain a population of oscillators with distributed natural frequencies, which do pull one another into synchrony, and which do make a more accurate oscillator en masse than individually.
At the next level, synchrony occurs between the various organs, in the sense that they all keep to the same period, even though the cells have differentiated into disparate types.
Finally, the third level of synchrony is that between our bodies and the world around us.
If this idea turns out to be right, we have to thank astronomical synchrony not only for killing the dinosaurs and making room for our ancestors, but also for providing the water that made life on Earth possible.