syntonic

American  

[sin-ton-ik] / sɪnˈtɒn ɪk /

Also syntonical,

adjective

1. Electricity. adjusted to oscillations of the same or a particular frequency.

2. Psychiatry. of or denoting a personality characterized by normal emotional responsiveness to the environment.

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syntonic British  

/ sɪnˈtɒnɪk /

adjective

1. psychol emotionally in harmony with one's environment

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Other Word Forms

• nonsyntonic
  adjective
• nonsyntonical
  adjective
• nonsyntonically
  adverb
• syntonically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of syntonic

1890–95; < Greek sýnton ( os ) attuned to, literally, stretched together (verbid of synteínein to harmonize, equivalent to syn- syn- + ton- (derivative of teínein to stretch; see tone) + -os adj. suffix) + -ic

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

syntonic

After the brief performance the group tried, admirably, to explain the music theory behind Mr. Haas’s piece while being amusingly self-aware about absurd microtonal descriptions like “D flat syntonic sharp undecimal sharp.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2017

Personality disorders are ego syntonic: individuals believe that the drama, self-absorption and other traits that characterize their condition are reasonable responses to the way the world is treating them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wireless telegraphy, 137; advance of, 145; receiver, 140, 141; syntonic, 143; transmitter, 138, 139.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Page 77, printer's error, systonic for syntonic, 'the systonic transmitting'.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming

Professor Braun's syntonic system, the receiver and transmitter of which have been described, is also in one form a non-earthed system.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming