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say it: SING-kruh-nuhs
synchronous is an adjective meaning "occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase". It carries 2 recorded senses.
occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
“recovery was synchronous with therapy”
“a synchronous set of clocks”
“the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight”
“synchronous oscillations”
(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
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for synchronous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.