Adjective: synchronic sin'kró-nik
- Occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
"recovery was synchronic with therapy";
- synchronous, synchronal [archaic]
- (language) 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
"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