Crossword clues for synchrony
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"occurrence or existence at the same time," 1848, from Greek synkhronos (see synchronous) + -y (2).
Wiktionary
n. synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.
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, asynchronism]
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 fiction television series The X-Files
- Synchrony Financial, an American consumer financial services company
"Synchrony" is the nineteenth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It was written by Howard Gordon and David Greenwalt and directed by James Charleston. The episode aired in the United States on April 13, 1997 on the Fox network. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, a stand-alone plot which is unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Synchrony" earned a Nielsen rating of 11.3, being watched by 18.09 million people upon its initial broadcast. The episode received mixed to positive reviews from television critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate a murder for which the suspect presents an incredible alibi—that the death was foretold by an old man able to see into the future. Upon investigating the case, the duo discover an increasingly bizarre series of events that leads Mulder to believe time travel is involved.
Gordon and Greenwalt wrote the episode after being inspired by an article in Scientific American about time travel and quantum physics. The idea of a scientist trying to stop the invention of something terrible was inspired by Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who complained to Harry S. Truman about the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan.
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.