synchronous
/ˈsɪŋkɹənəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
At the same time, at the same frequency.
adj
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.
Example Sentences
- "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 not be synchronous with either of the other scenes"
- "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 incomparably more dependent on the spatial world of synchronous phenomena than on that intangible island of entranced time where Lolita plays with her likes."
- "There is a synchronous tie between the motors in each machine room to ensure that the span remains level during raising and lowering."
- "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."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: synchronus, σύγχρονος
- Suffix: synchrony
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsɪŋkɹənəs/
- British English: /ˈsɪŋkɹənəs/
Inflected Forms
more synchronous (comparative)
most synchronous (superlative)