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Adjective: synchronic  sin'kró-nik
  1. Occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
    "recovery was synchronic with therapy";
    - synchronous, synchronal [archaic]
     
  2. (language) concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents
    "synchronic linguistics"
     
  3. (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time
    "The synchronic species provided insight into the ecosystem of that era"

See also: coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, contemporaneous, contemporary, co-occurrent, parallel, simultaneous, synchronised [Brit], synchronized

Antonym: asynchronous, diachronic

Encyclopedia: Synchronic