synchronous
UK/ˈsɪŋkɹənəs/
synchronous adjective: at the same time, at the same frequency.
Adjective
synchronous (comparative more synchronous, superlative most synchronous)
- At the same time, at the same frequency.
- But in these pictures it was possible for all the incidents to coexist at the one moment. In the 'Release of Peter' this was not possible. The waking and astonished soldiers to the left might be looking upon the miracle of the centre, but the escape of the Apostle over their recumbent bodies could...1909, Adolf Paul Oppé, Raphael, London: Methuen, page 151
- Neither are good looks any criterion; and vulgarity, or at least what a given community terms so, does not necessarily impair certain mysterious characteristics, the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers as are...1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- simultaneous, in phase, in sync, in step, synchronised, nonasynchronous, metachronous
- Antonyms:
- asynchronous, antisynchronous
- Interacting with other elements in series; blocking; interacting with the same program or thread as other operations, thereby preventing those operations from resuming until the operation of interest is complete.
- Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page 25
- Antonyms:
- asynchronous
synchronous meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
synchronous in Hindi
- समकालिक, सिंक्रोनस
synchronous in Tamil
- ஒருகாலத்தையுடைய, ஒருநேரத்தினிகழுகின்ற, ஏககால, இணக்க, ஒத்தியங்கு, ஒத்தியங்கும்
synchronous in Marathi
- समक्रमिक
synchronous in Bengali
- সিঙ্ক্রোনাস, সিঙ্ক্রোনাউস
More languagesFewer languages
- synchronous in Telugu
- సింక్రోనస్
- synchronous in Malayalam
- സിൻക്രണസ്
- synchronous in Kannada
- ಸಿಂಕ್ರೊನಸ್, ಸಿಂಕ್ರೋನಸ್
- synchronous in Punjabi
- ਸਿੰਕ੍ਰੋਨਸ, ਸਿੰਕ੍ਰੋਨਾਸ, ਸਿੰਕਰੋਨਸ
- synchronous in Odia
- ସିଙ୍କ୍ରୋନାସ୍, ସିଙ୍କ୍ରୋନାସ
- synchronous in Nepali
- सिङ्क्रोनास, सिंक्रोनस, सिङ्क्रोनेस
- synchronous in Indonesian
- sinkron
- synchronous in Persian
- همگام hamgâm, همزمان hamzamān
Examples of synchronous in a sentence
- The flutter has been treated, and symptoms of synchronous diaphragmatic flutter are no longer present.
- Results using synchronous and diachronous studies are often different and do not take into account the growth of literatures, which could affect citation counts received by a given paper.
- Global relayouting is synchronous, i.e., the JavaScript execution of the client is blocked.
Synonyms of synchronous
Antonyms
Forms of synchronous
| comparative | more synchronous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most synchronous |
Origin of synchronous
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.
Words formed from synchronous
- antisynchronous
- areosynchronous
- asynchronous
- autosynchronous
- bisynchronous
- desynchronous
- dyssynchronous
- dysynchronous
- geosynchronous
- heliosynchronous
- hemisynchronous
- hypersynchronous
- isosynchronous
- metasynchronous
- nonasynchronous
- nonsynchronous
- parasynchronous
- pseudosynchronous
- quasisynchronous
- semisynchronous
- subsynchronous
- sun-synchronous orbit
- supersynchronous
- synchroneity
- synchronous diaphragmatic flutter
- synchronously
- synchronous motor
- synchronousness
- synchronous orbit
- synchronous rotation
- synchronous speed
- unsynchronous
Phrases with synchronous
Questions about synchronous
- What does synchronous mean?
- Synchronous means at the same time, at the same frequency.
- What is synchronous in Hindi?
- Synchronous in Hindi is समकालिक, सिंक्रोनस. See Synchronous meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is synchronous?
- Synchronous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce synchronous?
- Synchronous is pronounced /ˈsɪŋkɹənəs/ (UK).
Words near synchronous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: synchronous (page history and authors); synchronous (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); synchronous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); synchronous (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); synchronous (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); synchronous (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); synchronous (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); synchronous (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); synchronous (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); synchronous (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); synchronous (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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