Definitions for "Synchronic"
The view of history as a set of situations (rather than events) occurring at the same time and influencing one another. The counterpart of diachronic.
A term used by structuralists to describe the formal properties of a narrative that do not pertain to temporal relations. When one considers, for example, a work's motifs (its recurring images), one is foregrounding synchronic elements. See also "diachronic."
(syn·CHRO·nic). Within a set time as opposed to over time (see diachronic).
occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; "recovery was synchronous with therapy"- Jour.A.M.A.; "a synchronous set of clocks"; "the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight"; "synchronous oscillations"
(of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time