synchronous
adjAU, CA, US, UK /ˈsɪŋkɹənəs/
Etymology Borrowed from Late Latin synchronus, from Ancient Greek σύγχρονος (súnkhronos, “contemporaneous”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “with, together”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -ous = synchrony + -ous; however, all related words (e.g., synchronic, synchrony, synchronicity, diachronous, diachronic, diachrony, diachronicity) were coined later, either as back-formations from, or otherwise by analogy with the surface analysis of, synchronous.
At the same time, at the same frequency.
- But in these pictures it was possible for all the incidents to coexist at the one moment. In the 'Release of Peter' this was not possible. The waking and astonished soldiers to the left might be looking upon the miracle of the centre, but the escape of the Apostle over their recumbent bodies could not be synchronous with either of the other scenes1909, Adolf Paul Oppé, Raphael, London: Methuen, page 151:
- There is a synchronous tie between the motors in each machine room to ensure that the span remains level during raising and lowering.1960 June 23, “New Lifting Bridge at Kings Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 388:
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of communication Interacting with other elements in series; blocking; interacting with the same program or thread as other operations, thereby preventing those operations from resuming until the operation of interest is complete.
- Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page 25:
- Derived terms
33 terms
antisynchronous, areosynchronous, asynchronous, autosynchronous, bisynchronous, desynchronous, dyssynchronous, dysynchronous, geosynchronous, heliosynchronous, hemisynchronous, hypersynchronous, isosynchronous, metasynchronous, nonasynchronous, nonsynchronous, parasynchronous, pseudosynchronous, quasisynchronous, semisynchronous, subsynchronous, sun-synchronous orbit, Sun-synchronous orbit, supersynchronous, synchroneity, synchronous diaphragmatic flutter, synchronously, synchronous motor, synchronousness, synchronous orbit, synchronous rotation, synchronous speed, unsynchronous- Related terms
- diachronic, diachronically, diachronous, diachronously, synchicity, synchronic, synchronicity, synchronise, synchronist, synchronize, synchronously, synchrony
- Hyponyms
- sun-synchronous