Synchronous vs Synchroneity - What's the difference?
synchronous | synchroneity |
At the same time, at the same frequency.
(computing, of communication) Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete.
(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being synchronous or synchronized.
* 1979 , Jocelyn Paine, "
* 2004 , Xianfeng Wang et al.'', "
(countable) A particular instance of objects, events, scientific data, etc. being in this state.
* 1985 , Richard J. Chorley et al.'', ''Geomorphology , ISBN 9780416325904,
As an adjective synchronous
is at the same time, at the same frequency.As a noun synchroneity is
the state or characteristic of being synchronous or synchronized.synchronous
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (at the same time or frequency) * (single-threaded)Antonyms
* (at the same time or frequency) * (single-threaded)synchroneity
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Noun
(en-noun)The partnership of artist and audience," Anchorage Daily News , 13 April, p. D1 (retrieved 24 Aug. 2010):
- Artist and audience are bound together in a three-legged race, sometimes reluctant partners, sometimes joyful in synchroneity .
Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210?kyr linked to distant climate anomalies," ''Nature , vol. 432, 9 Dec. (retrieved 24 Aug. 2010):
- This widespread synchroneity of climate anomalies suggests a relatively rapid global reorganization of the ocean–atmosphere system.
p. 539:
- Variously generated temperature curves for different localities do not always exhibit clear synchroneities .