synchronic linguistics.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.    From Dictionary.com. 

In what one might call a synchronic wingnut collision, far-right American commentator Joseph Sobran turns out to be a Shakespeare authorer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

"synchronic" and contempt for the "diachronic": that is, he was interested in structures of thinking that endure over the very long term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Saussure stressed the primacy of the synchronic view.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference

You better get a synchronic meter so we can double-check.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enemy Within] Reference

Section 4.3 of whether synchronic unity can be intransitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simulacra and Simulations on a Friday.] Reference

If so, synchronic unity is not necessary for singleness of person.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

In contemporary terms, his focus was synchronic rather than diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anton Marty] Reference

He heard only the feeble rattle of dying breath in his wild synchronic prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It] Reference

Second, it is not essential that there be synchronic conflict, as akrasia demands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weakness of Will] Reference

Cole, P. (1975) The synchronic and diachronic status of conversational implicature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Implicature] Reference

The amnesia in diachronic DID has this character, clearly, but so does synchronic DID.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

Like most linguistics in the twentieth century it is synchronic rather than diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference

As we saw, Nagel (1971) argues that there can be indeterminacy in synchronic unity, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

This shows that synchronic deontological concepts are dubious philosophical significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference

Unified consciousness at a given time (synchronic unity) has mainly been our topic so far.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

Are the probability laws the only standards of synchronic coherence for degrees of belief?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayesian Epistemology] Reference

James developed a detailed treatment of synchronic (or ˜at a time™) unity of consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

But the problem could not be clearly stated until the advent of synchronic phonemic analy - sis.    From Wordnik.com.  [LINGUISTICS] Reference

Obama's synchronic thinking about issues, which I've written about before, has also been on display.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayhill Fowler: Pennsylvania Campaign Journal: Obama Hams It Up, Flirts, And Gets A Bit Cocky] Reference

The first distinction to note is that between synchronic and diachronic conceptions of reductionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reductionism in Biology] Reference

As he put it, in synchronic unified consciousness, we are co-conscious of A, B, and C (1909, p. 221).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

Bach followed the hard line taken by Bunting in 1928 and insisted that the two stages were synchronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 21] Reference

For Kuhn synchronic pluralism only describes the situation of crisis and revolution between paradigms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Science] Reference

All these sounds play as synchronic kin, the accident of phonemic confluence that condenses new senses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference

Allegorical narra - tive yields a fixated image of change, in which time is synchronic, never diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

A synchronic Dutch Book is a Dutch Book combination of wagers that one would accept all at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayesian Epistemology] Reference

The emphasis on logical structure makes unity of explanation and reduction chiefly of the synchronic kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Science] Reference

Langue is the synchronic, social reality apart from its individual manifestations, which constitute parole.    From Wordnik.com.  [STRUCTURALISM] Reference

As one branch of postmodernists would observe, it privileges "synchronic meaning" over "diachronic meaning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: 'Retrograde' theology?] Reference

One can sympathize with Parfit about diachronic unity and yet have reservations about Nagel on synchronic unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

We immediately realize, al-Juwaynî says, that there is a synchronic alternative state to the actual building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guess Who Was At The Party?] Reference

The pathways metaphor incorporates both diachronic and synchronic elements into our conceptualization of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphors for history] Reference

They are apt to give the impression that identity comes in two kinds, synchronic and diachronic: a serious blunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Identity] Reference

It was felt that twentieth-century synchronic linguistics also needed a leading principle around which to organize its work.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference

Unity and reduction may be introduced along the following distinctions: epistemological and ontological, synchronic and diachronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Science] Reference

Timothy O'Connor (2000a, 2000b) contends that the standard construal of emergence as a synchronic supervenience relation is suspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emergent Properties] Reference

This assumption of pervasive synchronic mind-brain correlations is only plausible if interactionist dualism has already been ruled out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturalism] Reference