synchronismn.
/ˈsɪŋkrənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsɪŋkrəˌnɪzəm/ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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