synchrony

American  

[sing-kruh-nee] / ˈsɪŋ krə ni /

noun

PLURAL

synchronies

1. simultaneous occurrence; synchronism.

2. Linguistics.  the study of a linguistic system at a single moment in time; a synchronic approach to language study.

   The book primarily discusses synchrony and is focused on current variation in the German language.

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synchrony British  

/ ˈsɪŋkrənɪ /

noun

1. the state of being synchronous; simultaneity

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Etymology

Origin of synchrony

First recorded in 1840–50; synchron(ous) + -y ³

Example Sentences

"We have uncovered a surprising solution that the brain employs after sleep whereby neural populations participating in the task reduce their level of synchrony after sleep despite receiving synchronizing inputs during sleep itself," Dragoi said.

From Science Daily

“My hunch is that the synchrony is kind of the point,” he says.

From Science Magazine

"Many neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, epilepsy and Parkinson's involve disruption of emergent properties like neural synchrony," they write.

From Science Daily

This lack of social synchrony can land even the most debonair droid in the “uncanny valley.”

From Science Magazine

As the particles in a synchrotron gain energy, the fields generated by the steering magnets need to ramp up in synchrony to keep the particles on a circular path of a fixed radius.

From Science Magazine