Crossword clues for synchronism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synchronism \Syn"chro*nism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to be contemporary with, from ? synchronous. See Synchronous.]
The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.
The tabular arrangement of historical events and personages, according to their dates.
(Paint.) A representation, in the same picture, of two or events which occured at different times.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "quality of being synchronous," from Modern Latin synchronismus, from Greek synkhronismos, from synkhronos (see synchronous). Meaning "recurring at the same successive instants of time" is from 1854.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being synchronous 2 A temporal relationship between events
WordNet
n. the relation that exists when things occur at the same time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves" [syn: synchrony, synchronicity, synchroneity, synchronization, synchronisation, synchronizing] [ant: asynchronism, asynchronism, asynchronism]
Wikipedia
Synchronism is deliberately achieved coincidence at a specified point of time.
Usage examples of "synchronism".
Material of unmistakably meteoric origin was found by means of the drills, mixed with crushed rock, to a depth of six hundred to seven hundred feet below the floor of the crater, and a great deal of it has been found admixed with the ejected rock fragments on the outer slopes of the mountain, absolutely proving synchronism between the two events, the formation of this great crater and the falling of the meteoric iron out of the sky.