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Definition: Synchronous |
SynchronousAdjective1. 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". 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "synchronous" was first used: 1669. (references) |
Etymology: Synchronous \Syn"chro*nous\, adjective. [expression of Greek origin; sy`n with time. Compare to Chronicle.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Synchronous |
Aerospace | Coincident in time, phase, rate, etc. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Repetitive, coincidental in time with a specified phenomenon or quantity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | Two signals are synchronous if their corresponding significant instants have a desired phase relationship. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Occurring, existing, or formed at the same time; contemporary or simultaneous. The term is applied to rock surfaces on which every point has the same geologic age, such as the boundary between two ideal time-stratigraphic units in continuous and unbroken succession. It is also applied to growth (or depositional) faults and to plutons emplaced contemporaneously with orogenies. CF:isochronous; diachronous.Syn:synchronal; synchronic. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SYN | English | Synchronous idle | Computing, Meteorology & Standards |
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Synonyms: SynchronousSynonyms: synchronal (adj), synchronic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: asynchronous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Synchronism | Adjective: synchronous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronical, synchronistical; simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent; coeval, coevous; contemporary, contemporaneous; coetaneous; coeternal; isochronous. |
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 | Graphic of the Synchronous Meteorological Satellite, the forerunner of the GOES satellites. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Caption: Letters Patent: Improvement in Synchronous Movement For Electric Telegraphs; February 5, 1878; {27.033/3} (jpg). |
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Health | As a first step, patients should undergo evaluation of the remainder of the large bowel for synchronous lesions. (references) | |
Hemifacial spasm is characterized by sudden, unilateral, synchronous contractions of muscles innervated by the facial nerve. (references) | ||
Business | The UkrPack network provides direct connections to synchronous and asynchronous data terminals through dedicated lines, has gates to more than 100 networks world-wide, uses a wide spectrum of network protocols (TCP/IP, X.25, Frame Relay, SDLC, etc.), offers data transfer rates of up to 2 Mb/s, and provides all services envisioned by X.400 protocol, including access to Internet for all UkrPack clients. (references) | |
Economic History | Ireland | Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) technology is increasingly being used in the Irish backbone network infrastructure as it is well-suited to the administration of higher transmission rates and provision of broadband services. (references) |
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| "Synchronous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.94% of the time. "Synchronous" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.94% | 93 | 34,067 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.06% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 99 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "synchronous": angular variation in synchronous generators ♦ be synchronous ♦ binary Synchronous Transmission ♦ double Data Rate Synchronous Random Access Memory ♦ high speed synchronous serial interface ♦ parallel synchronous system ♦ salient pole synchronous induction motor ♦ single Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory ♦ synchronous converter ♦ synchronous Data Link Control ♦ synchronous Digital Hierarchy ♦ synchronous digital hierarchy equipment clock ♦ synchronous DRAM ♦ synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory ♦ synchronous grabbling ♦ synchronous Graphics RAM ♦ synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory ♦ synchronous idle ♦ synchronous key encryption ♦ synchronous motor ♦ synchronous network ♦ synchronous operation ♦ synchronous optical network ♦ synchronous reply ♦ synchronous sights ♦ synchronous transfer mode ♦ user synchronous data channel. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "synchronous": non-synchronous. | |
Containing "synchronous": non-synchronous fruit, non-synchronous garbling, non-synchronous reply. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "synchronous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sinkron, i njëkohshëm (concurrent, contemporaneous, simultaneous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متواقت (contemporary), متزامن (concurrent), تواقتي, تزامني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | синхронен (synchronic, synchronistic), едновременен (concomitant, concurrent, contemporaneous, isochronal, simultaneous, synchronistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 同步 , 同周. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | synchronní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | synkron. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | synchronisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sinkrona. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | samtíðar-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | synkronoitu, synkroninen, samanaikainen (contemporaneous, simultaneous), tahdistettu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | synchrone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | synchron (synchron, synchronic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύγχρονοσ (coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, cotemporary, current, latter day, modern, up to date), σύγχρονος (a latter-day hero, contemporary, latter-day, modern, up to date), σύγχρονο, ταυτόχρονο (simultaneousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyidejû (concurrent, contemporaneous, isochronal, isochronous, simultaneous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sincrono (demand synchronous, triggered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 同時 (concurrent, same time, simultaneous), 同期 (contemporary, corresponding period, same class, same period), シンクロトロン"射 (synchronize, synchronized, synchronized swimming, synchrotron radiation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうじ (boy, child, concurrent, kid, no change, same time, simultaneous, the same character, the same event), どうき (contemporary, copperware, corresponding period, incentive, motive, palpitation, pulsation, same class, same period, same temperament, same turn of mind, throbbing), シンクロナス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 동시 (Coincidental, Concurrent, simultaneous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sincroanagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ynchronoussay síncrono. (various references) sincronic (isochronous, synchronic), simulant (malingerer). (various references) синхронный (synchronic), одновременный (contemporaneous, instantaneous, simultaneous). (various references) sinhroni. (various references) sincrónico, síncrono. (various references) synkron. (various references) ซึ่งเกิ"ขึ้นในเวลาเ"ียวกัน. (various references) senkronize, senkron (synchromesh), eşzamanlı (contemporaneous, isochronous, simultaneous), aynı zamanlı, aynı yörüngede hareket eden, aynı frekanslı. (various references) синхронний, одночасний (contemporaneous, contemporary, isochronous, simultaneous). (various references) cyfamserol (timely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | synchronos. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | synchronus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "synchronous": synchronously, synchronousness, synchronousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "synchronous": asynchronous, geosynchronous, nonsynchronous. (additional references) | |
Words containing "synchronous": asynchronously. (additional references) | |
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"Synchronous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: isynchronous, synchronis, synchronouse, synchronus, syncronous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "synchronous" (pronounced 'Syn"chro*nous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Absonous, Acrogenous, Acuminous, Adenous, Adipogenous, AEruginous, Agynous, Alburnous, Altisonous, Aluminous, Ambaginous, Ambigenous, Amnigenous, Amphigenous, Amphigonous, Anachronous, Anisostemonous, Annotinous, Anodynous, Antherogenous, Asparaginous, asynchronous, Athermanous, Bimanous, Binominous, Binotonous, Binous, Bituminous, Blennogenous, Bombycinous, Calcigenous, Caliginous, Caprigenous, Cartilaginous, Cerasinous, Ceruminous, Chitinous, Chondrigenous, Chromatogenous, Collagenous, Concinnous, Consonous, Conterminous, Coralligenous, Coterminous, Covenous, Criminous, Cymophanous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-u-y" | |
-3 letters: chronons, synchros. | |
-4 letters: chronon, honours, nonsuch, ochrous, ronyons, synchro, uncross, unshorn, unsoncy, unsonsy. | |
-5 letters: choosy, chorus, churns, cornus, croons, honors, honour, hysons, onrush, ronyon, scorns, scours, shoyus, synchs. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-n-n-o-o-r-s-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: asynchronous. | |
+2 letters: synchronously. | |
+3 letters: asynchronously, geosynchronous, nonsynchronous. | |
+4 letters: synchronousness. | |
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