单词 | synchronism |
释义 | synchronismn. 1. a. The quality of being synchronous; coincidence or agreement in point of time; concurrence of two or more events in time; contemporary existence or occurrence. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] synchronism1588 concurrency1597 concurrence1605 contemporationa1638 contemporaneity1644 coincidence1650 simultaneitya1651 contemporaneousness1662 contermination1673 simulty1677 simultaneousness1786 coinstantaneitya1834 coinstantaneousness1848 onceness1866 synchrony1880 consentaneousness1882 synchroneity1909 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 21 Is there any greater concordance, or Synchronisme, betweene the prophesie of Elias and this text, than [etc.]? c1624 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 581 The Apocalypse..hath marks and signs..whereby the Order, Synchronism and Sequele of all the Visions..may be found out. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 148 The whole tenor of History, confirm'd by so many Synchronisms and Concurrences. 1712 Proposals for printing Treat. Art of Political Lying 20 It is impossible to explain several phænomena in relation to the Celerity of Lyes, without the Supposition of Synchronism and Combination. 1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 125 Nor is there any synchronism between the most recent epochas of the mineral kingdom, and the most ancient of our ordinary chronology. 1867 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) v. 95 The relative thickness of deposits is no test whatever of their synchronism. 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ II. lviii. 342 That Eternity, which is the synchronism of all the future, and all the present, and all the past. b. Geometry. The property of being synchronous, as a curve (see synchronous adj. 1c); spec. of a great circle (see circle n. 2a), the property that chords starting from the same point of the circumference will be described in equal times by particles descending under the influence of gravity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > locus locus1675 evolute1704 place1704 trajectory1795 syntractory1820 focal surface1828 synharmonic1850 syntractrix1852 pedal1862 umbilical focal conic1862 umbilical focal conic1862 stigmatic1863 synchronism1867 synchronous curve1867 Steinerian1873 tac-locus1873 strophoid1880 orthoptic locus1882 strophoidal1908 hypercycle1909 1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 685/1 The synchronism of the circle. 2. a. Arrangement or treatment of synchronous events, etc. together or in conjunction, as in a history; agreement in relation to the time of the events described. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > arrangement or treatment of synchronous events synchronism1612 synchrony1848 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A2 Vpon weighing the Reporters credit, Comparison with more perswading authority, and Synchronisme (the best Touch-stone in this kind of Triall). a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. iii. 143 The coherence and synchronism of all the parts of the Mosaical Chronology. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iv. 420 The laws of synchronism..bring strange partners together, and we may pass at once from Luther to Ariosto. b. (with a and plural) A statement or argument that two or more events, etc. are synchronous; a parallel drawn between occurrences, etc. in respect of time; a description or account of different events belonging to the same period; a tabular arrangement of historical events or personages according to their dates. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > arrangement or treatment of synchronous events > statement or argument that events are synchronous synchronism1593 synchrony1848 society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun] > tabular synchronism1593 synchrony1848 the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account > particular types of > account of different events from same period synchronism1593 synchrony1848 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 7 Your Synchronisme of Faunus, of Sybilla and Praenestine is to no purpose. 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 214 Which two Kingdoms..are..described in a continued Synchronisme, or Contemporary Parallel. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xxi. 79 To range them in Synchronisms, and try to adjust them with sacred Chronology. 1861 E. O'Curry Lect. Manuscript Materials Anc. Irish Hist. 171 The histories and synchronisms of Erinn. 1888 E. L. Cutts St. Augustine vii. 52 We may make a useful synchronism by noting that the time of his residence was in the year following that in which Symmachus had headed a deputation of senators. 1901 Temple Bible, Exodus 136 (heading) Synchronism of Ancient History. c. (a) Treatment of details according to identity of period, as in architecture. (b) Representation of events of different times together, e.g. in the same picture. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > historical painting > a historical painting > type of battle-piece1713 murdering piece1797 synchronism1843 war picture1883 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 158 The question whether synchronism and uniformity of style are essential to beauty and propriety in architecture. 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 160/1 This work is executed with a knowledge of style and detail, with an attention to synchronism..which leaves nothing to be desired. 1854 F. W. Fairholt Dict. Terms Art Synchronism, a representation of two or more events at the same time: it was a favourite practice with the mediæval artists to give the entire life of a saint, or history of an event, in one picture. 3. a. Recurrence at the same successive instants of time; the fact of keeping time, i.e. proceeding at the same rate and exactly together; coincidence of period, as of two sets of movements, vibrations, or alternations of electric current. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > recurrence at same successive instants of time isochronism1770 synchronism1843 1843 H. Rogers in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 449 Exact synchronism and parallelism of movements, as between those of two exactly regulated chronometers. 1869 J. Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 231 The heaping up of motion on the atoms, in consequence of their synchronism with the shorter waves. 1873 F. Jenkin Electr. & Magn. xxii. 323 The synchronism required is in Caselli's instrument obtained by a pendulum at each receiving station;..the one pendulum controls the other by a current which it transmits..through a special circuit. 1902 Electr. Rev. 21 Feb. 290/1 A new synchronism indicator for alternators. b. spec. in Cinematography and Television. Cf. synchronize v. 2c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > exact matching of sound and picture synchronization1828 synchronism1904 sync1929 synchronizing1931 society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > synchronizing of transmitter or receiver synchronism1928 1904 Billboard 27 Aug. 13/4 The motor of the cinematograph is absolutely dependent on the movement of the phonograph axle, and perfect synchronism must be had..in order to render the illusion as perfectly lifelike as possible. 1928 Television Mar. 37 Thus ensuring synchronism between the transmitter and the receiver. 1957 A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music iii. 75 Nothing..can be more vulgar than music synchronism in films. 1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 78/2 (advt.) The display cathode ray tube on which this output is viewed is scanned in synchronism. 4. = Synchromism n. Cf. Simultaneism n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > Orphism or Synchromism Synchromism1912 Orphism1914 Simultaneism1915 synchronism1961 1914 M. Russell Let. 12 Mar. in G. Levin Synchromism & Amer. Color Abstraction 1910–1925 (1978) ii. 20 Please don't say Synchronisme which does not apply to painting, the termination is ‘chrome’, ‘color’.] 1961 M. Levy Studio Dict. Art Terms 109 Synchronism, an alternative expression for Orphism. 1972 C. W. E. Bigsby Dada & Surrealism ii. 10 In some ways it was a part of that artistic re-examination which spawned such schools as impressionism, cubism, futurism and, more exotically, suprematism, rayonism, plasticism, vorticism and synchronism. 5. Linguistics. = synchrony n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > synchrony, diachrony, or panchrony panchrony1931 synchrony1931 diachrony1959 diachronism1962 synchronism1962 1962 Y. Malkiel in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. i. 15 The fundamental dimension (diachronism versus synchronism). Derivatives synchroˈnismical adj. belonging to a synchronism or account of synchronous events (see 2b). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [adjective] > of a narrative or account > of types of synchronismical1793 society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [adjective] > type of historical record synchronismical1793 1793 J. Hely tr. R. O'Flaherty Ogygia I. 136 The ancient synchronismical account of Flann. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1588 |
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