Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   syn·chro·nous

   /ˈsiNGkrənəs/

   adjective

   • 1. existing or occurring at the same time: "glaciations were approximately synchronous in both hemispheres"
   • 2. (of a satellite or its orbit) making or denoting an orbit around the earth or another celestial body in which one revolution is completed in the period taken for the body to rotate about its axis.

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from late Latin synchronus (from Greek sunkhronos, from sun- ‘together’ + khronos ‘time’) + -ous.

   Derivatives

   • 1. synchronously adverb

   Scrabble Points: 19

   • S

     1

   • Y

     4

   • N

     1

   • C

     3

   • H

     4

   • R

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

   • O

     1

   • U

     1

   • S

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points