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synchronousRefers to events that are synchronized, or coordinated, in time. For example, the interval between transmitting A and B is the same as between B and C, and completing the current operation before the next one is started are considered synchronous operations. Contrast with asynchronous. synchronous Physics (of periodic phenomena, such as voltages) having the same frequency and phase synchronous [′siŋ·krə·nəs] (engineering) In step or in phase, as applied to two or more circuits, devices, or machines. (geology) Geological rock units or features formed at the same time.
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| He is more inclined to believe that the expulsion of the foe from England was synchronous with widespread victories by the allies upon the continent, and that the people of England merely emigrated from their ruined cities and their devastated, blood-drenched fields to the mainland, in the hope of finding, in the domain of the conquered enemy, cities and farms which would replace those they had lost. |
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