sylph | (noun) an elemental being believed to inhabit the air | - |
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(noun) a slender graceful young woman | - |
sylphic | (adjective) (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph | Synonyms: sylphlike |
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sylphlike | (adjective) (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph | Synonyms: sylphic |
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sylva | (noun) the forest trees growing in a country or region | Synonyms: silva |
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sylvan | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of wooded regions | Synonyms: silvan |
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(noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: silvan |
sylvanite | (noun) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America | Synonyms: graphic tellurium |
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sylvine | (noun) a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds | Synonyms: sylvite |
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sylvite | (noun) a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds | Synonyms: sylvine |
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symbiosis | (noun) the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other | Synonyms: mutualism |
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symbiotic | (adjective) used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each | - |
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symbiotically | (adverb) in a symbiotic manner | - |
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symbol | (noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization |
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(noun) an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance | - |
symbolatry | (noun) the worship of symbols | Synonyms: symbol-worship, symbololatry |
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symbolic | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolical |
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(adjective) using symbolism | - |
(adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolical |
symbolical | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolic |
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(adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic |
symbolically | (adverb) in a symbolic manner | - |
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(adverb) by means of symbols | - |
symbolisation | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolism, symbolization |
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(noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbol, symbolic representation, symbolization |
(noun) the use of symbols to convey meaning | Synonyms: symbolization |
symbolise | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolize, typify |
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(verb) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols | Synonyms: symbolize |
symboliser | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symbolist, symbolizer |
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symbolising | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolizing |
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symbolism | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation, symbolization |
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(noun) a system of symbols and symbolic representations | - |
(noun) an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images | - |
symbolist | (noun) a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols | - |
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(noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer |
symbolization | (noun) the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation, symbolism |
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(noun) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | Synonyms: symbol, symbolic representation, symbolisation |
(noun) the use of symbols to convey meaning | Synonyms: symbolisation |
symbolize | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolise, typify |
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(verb) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols | Synonyms: symbolise |
symbolizer | (noun) someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | Synonyms: symboliser, symbolist |
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symbolizing | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolising |
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symbology | (noun) the study or the use of symbols and symbolism | - |
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symbololatry | (noun) the worship of symbols | Synonyms: symbol-worship, symbolatry |
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symmachy | (noun) Fighting together or in an alliance with an ally (or allies) | - |
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symmetric | (adjective) having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts | Synonyms: symmetrical |
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symmetrical | (adjective) having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts | Synonyms: symmetric |
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(adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, proportionate |
symmetrically | (adverb) in a symmetrical manner | - |
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symmetricalness | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetry |
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symmetrise | (verb) make symmetric | Synonyms: symmetrize |
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symmetrize | (verb) make symmetric | Synonyms: symmetrise |
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symmetry | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness |
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(noun) (physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions | Synonyms: isotropy |
(noun) balance among the parts of something | Synonyms: proportion |
sympathectomy | (noun) surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system | - |
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sympathetic | (adjective) expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward | - |
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(adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: appealing, likable, likeable |
(adjective) of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system | - |
(adjective) relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body | Synonyms: harmonic |
(adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted |
(adjective) having similar disposition and tastes | - |
sympathetically | (adverb) with respect to the sympathetic nervous system | - |
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(adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: empathetically |
sympathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathize, understand |
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(verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: commiserate, sympathize |
(verb) share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of | Synonyms: sympathize |
sympathiser | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathizer, well-wisher |
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(noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathizer |
sympathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, understand |
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(verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: commiserate, sympathise |
(verb) share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of | Synonyms: sympathise |
sympathizer | (noun) someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | Synonyms: sympathiser, well-wisher |
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(noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: comforter, sympathiser |
sympathomimetic | (adjective) relating to epinephrine (its release or action) | Synonyms: adrenergic |
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sympathy | (noun) an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion | Synonyms: understanding |
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(noun) sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) | Synonyms: fellow feeling |
(noun) a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other | - |
sympatric | (adjective) (of biological species or speciation) occurring in the same or overlapping geographical areas | - |
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sympatry | (noun) the occurrence of organisms in overlapping geographical areas, but without interbreeding | - |
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sympetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel | Synonyms: gamopetalous |
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symphilid | (noun) minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops | Synonyms: garden centipede, garden symphilid, Scutigerella immaculata |
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symphonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic or suggestive of a symphony | - |
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(adjective) harmonious in sound | Synonyms: symphonious |
symphonious | (adjective) harmonious in sound | Synonyms: symphonic |
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symphonise | (verb) play or sound together, in harmony | Synonyms: symphonize |
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symphonist | (noun) a composer of symphonies | - |
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symphonize | (verb) play or sound together, in harmony | Synonyms: symphonise |
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symphony | (noun) a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra | Synonyms: symphonic music |
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(noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: philharmonic, symphony orchestra |
symphysion | (noun) the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible | - |
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symphysis | (noun) a growing together of parts or structures | - |
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(noun) an abnormal adhesion of two or more structures | - |
symploce | (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe | - |
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symposiarch | (noun) the person who proposes toasts and introduces speakers at a banquet | Synonyms: toastmaster |
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symposiast | (noun) someone who participates in a symposium | - |
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symposium | (noun) a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations | - |
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symptom | (noun) anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence | - |
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(noun) (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease | - |
symptomatic | (adjective) relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms | - |
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(adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: diagnostic |
symptomatically | (adverb) by symptoms | - |
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symptomless | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: asymptomatic |
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synaeresis | (noun) the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making) | Synonyms: syneresis |
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(noun) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong | Synonyms: syneresis |
synaesthesia | (noun) a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated | Synonyms: synesthesia |
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synaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or experiencing synesthesia; involving more than one sense | Synonyms: synesthetic |
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synagogue | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: tabernacle, temple |
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synapse | (noun) the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle | - |
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synapsid | (noun) extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull | Synonyms: synapsid reptile |
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synapsis | (noun) the side by side pairing of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes at the start of meiosis | - |
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synaptic | (adjective) (neuroscience) of or involving synapses | - |
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sync | (verb) make synchronous and adjust in time or manner | Synonyms: synchronise, synchronize |
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syncarp | (noun) fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple | Synonyms: aggregate fruit, multiple fruit |
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syncarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels | - |
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syncategorem | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategoreme |
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syncategorematic | (adjective) of a term that cannot stand as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition but must be used in conjunction with other terms | - |
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syncategoreme | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategorem |
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synchro | (noun) a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized | Synonyms: selsyn |
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synchrocyclotron | (noun) cyclotron that achieves relativistic velocities by modulating the frequency of the accelerating electric field | - |
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synchroflash | (noun) a device used in photography to synchronize the peak of a flash with the opening of the camera shutter | - |
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synchromesh | (noun) an automotive system for shifting gears in which the gears revolve at the same speed and so shift smoothly | - |
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synchronal | (adjective) occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | Synonyms: synchronic, synchronous |
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synchroneity | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
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synchronic | (adjective) concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents | - |
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(adjective) occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | Synonyms: synchronal, synchronous |
(adjective) (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time | - |
synchronicity | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
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synchronisation | (noun) coordinating by causing to indicate the same time | Synonyms: synchronization, synchronizing |
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(noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing |
(noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
synchronise | (verb) make synchronous and adjust in time or manner | Synonyms: sync, synchronize |
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(verb) operate simultaneously | Synonyms: synchronize |
(verb) cause to indicate the same time or rate | Synonyms: synchronize |
(verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronize |
(verb) make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action | Synonyms: synchronize |
(verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronize |
synchronised | (adjective) operating in unison | Synonyms: synchronized |
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synchroniser | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchronizer, synchronoscope, synchroscope |
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synchronising | (noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing |
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synchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
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synchronization | (noun) coordinating by causing to indicate the same time | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronizing |
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(noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronising, synchronizing |
(noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronizing, synchrony |
synchronize | (verb) make synchronous and adjust in time or manner | Synonyms: sync, synchronise |
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(verb) operate simultaneously | Synonyms: synchronise |
(verb) cause to indicate the same time or rate | Synonyms: synchronise |
(verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronise |
(verb) make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action | Synonyms: synchronise |
(verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronise |
synchronized | (adjective) operating in unison | Synonyms: synchronised |
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synchronizer | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchroniser, synchronoscope, synchroscope |
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synchronizing | (noun) coordinating by causing to indicate the same time | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronization |
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(noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronising, synchronization |
(noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchrony |
synchronoscope | (noun) an instrument that indicates whether two periodic motions are synchronous (especially an instrument that enables a pilot to synchronize the propellers of a plane that has two or more engines) | Synonyms: synchroniser, synchronizer, synchroscope |
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synchronous | (adjective) occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | Synonyms: synchronal, synchronic |
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(adjective) (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal (a timing reference) between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions | - |