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 birds wings in flight; synchronous oscillations

[ Syn: synchronous , synchronal ]

concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; synchronic linguistics'

(of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time