Dictionary › S › synchronic
synchronic
3 syllablesYour browser doesn’t have built-in voices. Try Chrome, Edge or Safari.
As an adjective, synchronic means occurring at a specific point in time.
Meanings of synchronic
5 meaningsadjective
Occurring at a specific point in time.
linguisticsRelating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.
Occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
“recovery was synchronous with therapy”
“a synchronous set of clocks”
“the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight”
Similar: synchronous, synchronalConcerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents
“synchronic linguistics”
(of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).