synchrony

Examples

• All

• Predation and climatic factors apparently are complementary, rather than exclusive, and contribute to the synchrony in herbivore cycles.

  Academic text (1996)

• In that case, the rowers were exerting themselves in synchrony as a united group.

  Blog text (2)

• Living habits were in perfect synchrony with the day night cycle.

• The life cycle of the pitcher plant mosquito has evolved in synchrony with its host.

  Academic text (1992)

• The heart loses its synchrony because all parts of it no longer function properly, and arrhythmia occurs.

  Academic text (1998)

• And with a dozen violin bows moving in perfect synchrony, the orchestra looks as good as it sounds.

  Academic text (1995)

• According to this perspective, youth influence each other's behavior through synchrony in social interchanges (Cairns & Cairns, 1994).

  Academic text (1999)

• Self-synchrony is the manifest observable phenomenon of a rhythmic internal process linked with the brain waves.

  Academic text (2000)

• Predator movements are likely to cause synchrony of vole, lemming, and snowshoe hare cycles.

  Academic text (2004)

• What ecological factors are likely to induce large-scale synchrony of mouse outbreaks and vole, lemming, and snowshoe hare cycles?

  Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

U

unison

vssynchrony

265 2.8

Two or more people act or speak at the same time

is broader, covering precise coordinated timing beyond joint performance

S

synchronization

vssynchrony

• US

12 4.7

The state of things happening at the same time

refers to the resulting coordinated state rather than the making process

C

concurrency

vssynchrony

2 8.1

Two or more events happening at the same time

stresses precise timing and coordination rather than mere simultaneous action

S

synchronicity

vssynchrony

2 9.3

Events happening at the same time in a matching way

focuses on precise timing and coordination rather than perceived meaningful links

S

simultaneity

vssynchrony

1 7.9

Two or more things happening at the same time

emphasizes exact coordination and timing rather than only happening together

S

synchro

vssynchrony

• Informal

1 6.7

Perfect timing when people or machines move together

uses a more formal sense of exact coordination beyond casual timing

C

concurrence

vssynchrony

1 7.2

Two or more things happening at the same time

adds an emphasis on exact coordination and matched timing to that fact

C

contemporaneity

vssynchrony

1 9.7

Happening at the same time as something else

focuses more on precise coordinated occurrence rather than simple contemporaneousness

S

synchroneity

vssynchrony

9.9

A state of things happening at the same time

highlights precise coordinated timing rather than simple coexistence in time

S

synchronism

vssynchrony

8.2

The state of events or actions happening at the same time

adds a sense of exact coordination and matched timing to that fact

S

simultaneousness

vssynchrony

7.7

Two or more things happening at the same time

places more weight on precise joint timing and coordinated action

C

concomitance

vssynchrony

• Formal

9.9

Two or more things happen at the same time

narrows this to events timed precisely and working in coordination

C

co-occurrence

vssynchrony

7.1

More than one thing happening at the same time or in the same place

adds the idea of exact timing and intentional coordination between them

C

coinherence

vssynchrony

• Archaic

9.9

Things exist in the same place at the same time without interacting

implies active coordination and precise timing rather than mere coexistence

C

contemporaneousness

vssynchrony

9.9

The fact of existing or happening at the same time as something else

puts stronger emphasis on exact coordination and matched timing

Antonyms

A

asynchrony

9.2

Two or more things do not happen at the same time

How Synchronized

synchrony

2 6.7

asynchrony

9.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology