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" Synonym(s):synchronous, synchronal, synchronic Antonym(s):asynchronous
concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; "synchronic linguistics" Antonym(s):diachronic, historical
(of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time