Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a synchronical manner; simultaneously.
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- adverb In a
synchronic way; at the same time
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is and remains a qualitative definition of the Church of the New Covenant that both synchronically and diachronically she is a Church made up of Jews and Gentiles, even if the quantitative ratio of Jewish and Gentile Christians may give a different impression.
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What I'm wondering is how often this sort of thing occurs synchronically.
On antinyms DC 2010
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What I'm wondering is how often this sort of thing occurs synchronically.
Archive 2010-07-01 DC 2010
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Having run off the tracks of history, the West synchronically relives the destiny of metaphysics in the eloquent silence of its own operation.
enowning enowning 2009
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Having run off the tracks of history, the West synchronically relives the destiny of metaphysics in the eloquent silence of its own operation.
Archive 2009-01-01 enowning 2009
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Looked at synchronically, my present inability to pay apparently makes my failing to pay excusable.
Epistemological Problems of Memory Senor, Thomas D. 2009
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And we have to do it in a consistent way, not synchronically, we don't necessarily have to do all of us the same thing at the same time.
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McCawley and Henrich (2006) take these findings as showing that the visual system is diachronically (as opposed to synchronically) penetrable, in that how one experiences the illusion-inducing stimulus changes as a result of one's wider perceptual experience over an extended period of time.
Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009
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The "slightness" of the ribbons holding the pictures together can be compared to the temporal, narrative dimension of all writing, which Darwin finds many ways to downplay in favour of the synchronically viewable pictures which — as in his repeated use of extended similes introduced by "So" or "Hence" — he often asks us to juxtapose and compare quasi-spatially rather than merely as diachronically successive.
Introduction 2006
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In Metaphysics Ζ, Aristotle introduces the distinction between matter and form synchronically, applying it to an individual substance at a particular time.
Aristotle's Metaphysics Cohen, S. Marc 2008
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