synchronous
Meanings
Adjective
- occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; - Jour.A.M.A.
- "recovery was synchronous with therapy"
- "a synchronous set of clocks"
- "the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight"
- "synchronous oscillations"
- (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal (a timing reference) between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions
Adj
- At the same time, at the same frequency.
- Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin synchronus, from Ancient Greek σύγχρονος (súnkhronos, “contemporaneous”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “with, together”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -ous = synchrony + -ous; however, all related words (e.g., synchronic, synchrony, synchronicity, diachronous, diachronic, diachrony, diachronicity) were coined later, either as back-formations from, or otherwise by analogy with the surface analysis of, synchronous.
Synonyms
blocking, in phase, in step, in sync, metachronous, modal, nonasynchronous, simultaneous, single-threaded, synchronal, synchronic, synchronised
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 19
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