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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
synchronous
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Again they started their wild synchronous flailing.
▪ He had thus discovered that alternators can run in parallel when synchronous.
▪ In each case, the subject was reporting which other event a particular experience was synchronous with.
▪ The four-port Multiprotocol Communications Controller attaches the 220 to synchronous communications networks and up to two adaptors can be used on each system.
▪ The Moon rotates so slowly that synchronous orbit is not achievable.
▪ The software supports most synchronous communications cards.
▪ This equality corresponds to synchronous rotation.
▪ To date, in all languages studied, synchronous movement has been observed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synchronous

Synchronous \Syn"chro*nous\, a. [Gr. ?; sy`n with + ? time. Cf. Chronicle.] Happening at the same time; simultaneous. -- Syn"chro*nous*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
synchronous

1660s, "existing or happening at the same time," from Late Latin synchronus "simultaneous," from Greek synkhronos "happening at the same time," from syn- "together" (see syn-) + khronos "time" (see chrono-). Meaning "recurring at the same successive instants of time" is attested from 1670s. Related: Synchronously.

Wiktionary
synchronous

a. 1 At the same time, at the same frequency. 2 (context computing of communication English) Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete.

WordNet
synchronous
  1. 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: synchronal, synchronic] [ant: asynchronous]

  2. (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal (a timing reference) between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions [ant: asynchronous]

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Usage examples of "synchronous".

He was an acausal double, a synchronous mirrorself, the echo of the godmind returning from the future, as unconscious of his power as the Delph was aware.

The orthomolecular vitamin diet, perhaps that did it, perhaps it really did heighten synchronous firing of the two hemispheres of my brain.

Switters considered a similar, perhaps synchronous indulgence but decided instead to review the prophecies, about which he maintained, not altogether uncharacteristically, ambivalent feelings.

Professor Perrey, of Dijon, France, is endeavoring to prove that there is a periodicity in earthquakes, synchronous with that in the tides of the ocean, the greatest number occurring at the time of new and full moon.

Between the clavicles another pulsatile swelling was easily felt but hardly seen, which was doubtless the arch of the aorta, as by putting the fingers on it one could feel a double shock, synchronous with distention and recoil of a vessel or opening and closing of the semilunar valves.

There is an intrinsic plausibility to this theory: if two neurons A and B have inputs to C, and if the activation of C is stronger when its inputs come in repeatedly at almost exactly the same time, then neuron C will be more strongly activated if its inputs A and B are synchronous.

Christ would have left more of an impress upon India than it did, and that Christianity there and in India would have been synchronous, but we must remember, that there among the idols of Bramah and Vishnu, the way was not prepared, the people unexpectant of a new prophet, unwarned of him and unheeded.

Next you tow your twelve moons into place, positioning them so that they occupy the same synchronous orbit in a stable dodecagonal configuration.

A great flood, which occurred in his reign, has been considered synchronous and identical with the Noachic Deluge, and to Yau is attributed the merit of having successfully battled against the waters.

Using a coded link to Romberg AG HQ in synchronous Earth orbit, I queried the status of all the clone tanks.

Atlantic Ocean more than twenty-two thousand miles out in space, the massive, wheeling hulk of Vega Jumpoff Station lumbered through its synchronous orbit.

As the synchronous emotional outbreak began to rise within her, he threw himself to one side, into the pile of discarded plasticine containers.

Even the east-west and west-east mail satellites, which dropped their own skyhooks from orbits a little above, or below, synchronous orbit, were constrained to an equatorial run.

Less than an hour short of injecting Inconnu Deux into synchronous orbit, juggling deceleration to give maneuverability if he needed it, Tregare showed his impatience.

The obvious way would be to start out at synchronous orbit and extrude cable up and down simultaneously, so you keep a balance between the cable above and below you, with gravity and centrifugal forces matching.