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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024syn•chro•nous /ˈsɪŋkrənəs/USA pronunciation adj. - going on at the same rate and exactly together;
recurring together. - Aerospacegeostationary:a synchronous orbit.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024syn•chro•nous (sing′krə nəs),USA pronunciation adj. - occurring at the same time;
coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous. - going on at the same rate and exactly together;
recurring together. - Electricity, Physics[Physics, Elect.]having the same frequency and zero phase difference.
- Computing, Telecommunicationsof, pertaining to, or operating using fixed-time intervals controlled by a clock (opposed to asynchronous).
- Aerospacegeostationary.
- Greek sýnchronos, equivalent. to syn- syn- + chrón(os) time + -os adjective, adjectival suffix; see -ous
- Late Latin synchronus
- 1660–70
syn′chro•nous•ly, adv. syn′chro•nous•ness, n. |