homochronous

Adjective

homochronous (not comparable)

1. Of two signals, such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time.
   • In fact, the various multiplexes in the network are homochronous.1969, White Book, volume 3, International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee
   • Two signals having different nominal signaling rates, and not stemming from the same clock or from homochronous clocks are usually heterochronous.1980, Glossary of telecommunication terms, United States Federal Supply Service, page 55
2. Occurring at the same time.
   • Broken lateritic pisolites in the lower part of the Nadarra Formation show that it is homochronous with, or post-dates, the main laterite development.1958, J. R. H. McWhae, The Stratigraphy of Western Australia, page 129
   • Five events in the developing geniculocortical pathway were found to be homochronous (that is, they occur at the same stage of the Caecal Period ± 4% CP— in all species).1989, Seeing contour and colour: based on the proceedings of the Third International Symposium of the Northern Eye Institute, Manchester, UK, 9-13 August 1987
3. (dated) Occurring at the same age in successive generations.
   • Hereditary insanity may appear in children at the same time that it appeared in the parent, and it is then called homochronous.1894, A Practical Manual of Mental Medicine, page 39
   • Homochronous and homologous manifestations of hereditary diseases1936, The Eugenics Review, volume 27, page 104