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'''Synchronous''' can refer to the following meanings:
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*1. a. Existing or happening at the same [[time]]; coincident in time; belonging to the same period, or occurring at the same [[moment]], of time; contemporary; simultaneous.
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:b. transf. Relating to or treating of different events or things belonging to the same time or period; involving or indicating contemporaneous or simultaneous occurrence.
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:c. synchronous curve (Geom.), a curve which is the [[locus]] of the points reached at any instant by a number of particles descending from the same point down a family of curves under the action of [[gravity]].
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*2. a. Recurring at the same successive instants of time; keeping time with; going on at the same rate and exactly together; having coincident periods, as two sets of vibrations or the like. Cf. sense 2d below.
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:b. Electr. Applied to alternating currents having coincident periods; also to a [[machine]] or motor working in time with the alternations of current. ¶erron. Of [[uniform]] [[velocity]].
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:c. Computers and Telecommunications. Of apparatus or [[method]]s of [[work]]ing: making use of equally spaced pulses that govern the timing of operations.
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:d. Of a satellite: rotating round the parent [[planet]] at the same rate as the planet rotates. Of an orbit: such that a satellite in it is '''synchronous'''.
  
*[[synchronization]], the coordination of events to operate a system in unison.
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Compare: [[Harmonious]]
*[[Synchronization (computer science)]]
 
**[[Data synchronization]]
 
* [[Synchronization (alternating current)]]
 
*[[synchronicity]], a term from Jungian psychology.
 
*''[[Synchronicity (album)]],'' an album by The Police.
 
*"[[Synchronicity II]]", a song by The Police from the above album.
 
*''[[Synchronicity (Olivia)]],'' an album by OLIVIA (Olivia Lufkin).
 
*[[Synchronicity Software]] an [[EDA]] application and company that was later acquired by [[MatrixOne]]
 
  
 
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  • 1. a. Existing or happening at the same time; coincident in time; belonging to the same period, or occurring at the same moment, of time; contemporary; simultaneous.
b. transf. Relating to or treating of different events or things belonging to the same time or period; involving or indicating contemporaneous or simultaneous occurrence.
c. synchronous curve (Geom.), a curve which is the locus of the points reached at any instant by a number of particles descending from the same point down a family of curves under the action of gravity.
  • 2. a. Recurring at the same successive instants of time; keeping time with; going on at the same rate and exactly together; having coincident periods, as two sets of vibrations or the like. Cf. sense 2d below.
b. Electr. Applied to alternating currents having coincident periods; also to a machine or motor working in time with the alternations of current. ¶erron. Of uniform velocity.
c. Computers and Telecommunications. Of apparatus or methods of working: making use of equally spaced pulses that govern the timing of operations.
d. Of a satellite: rotating round the parent planet at the same rate as the planet rotates. Of an orbit: such that a satellite in it is synchronous.

Compare: Harmonious