simultaneous action, development, or occurrence 同时行动;同步发展;同时发生 ■the state of operating or developing according to the same time scale as something else 同时性 some individuals do not remain in synchrony with the twenty-four-hour day. 有些人不与一天二十四小时的生活节奏同步。
synchronic treatment or study 同步治疗(学习) the structuralist distinction between synchrony and diachrony. 结构主义者对共时和历时的区分。
语源
mid 19th cent.: from Greek sunkhronos (see synchronous)