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synchrony - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun rare The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun synchronicity , the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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From Ancient Greek σύν (syn, "with") + χρόνος (chronos, "time").
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Participants were invited to sit down, knit for a while in synchrony , and come and go as they pleased.
Laure Drogoul’s Amplified Knitting Orchestra 2009
Transport/container transport costs have varied in synchrony with oil costs, and manufacturers are once again seeing the need to build manufacturing capacity as close as possible to their markets.
Depression 2008
So it has moving parts, the moving parts function in synchrony , in appropriate sequence and in synchrony with one another.
Roger D. Kornberg - Interview 2006
For example, when identifying two people shaking hands, their hands must not only be close, but must also move in synchrony .
Surveillance system spots violent behaviour 2006
The figure illustrates the kind of synchrony that Lieberman is highlighting -- over a sweep of some thousand years, there is a rough-and-ready correspondence in the patterns of territorial consolidation that existed in Burma and France.
Strange parallels Daniel Little 2008
The figure illustrates the kind of synchrony that Lieberman is highlighting -- over a sweep of some thousand years, there is a rough-and-ready correspondence in the patterns of territorial consolidation that existed in Burma and France.
Archive 2008-10-01 Daniel Little 2008
In fact, it’s just gorgeous, and in the kind of synchrony that seems to be happening all too often to me lately, Alex and I were wandering around downtown on Saturday and paused at an adorable pastry shop called Financier on Stone Street.
gluten-free chocolate financiers | smitten kitchen 2007
The total package was impeccable, impressive creativity in the lyrical stylings and an innovative producer who worked in perfect synchrony with the artist.
Larger Than Lyfe Cynthia Diane Thornton 2011
The total package was impeccable, impressive creativity in the lyrical stylings and an innovative producer who worked in perfect synchrony with the artist.
Larger Than Lyfe Cynthia Diane Thornton 2011
His method allowed clinicians to identify mothers who displayed a lack of synchrony with their babies.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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