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noun
Synchronism  n.  
1.
The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.
2.
The tabular arrangement of historical events and personages, according to their dates.
3.
(Paint.) A representation, in the same picture, of two or events which occured at different times.





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"Synchronism" Quotes from Famous Books



... but also in signo rationis, or in the order of nature. And indeed, the Formula of Concord, building upon some passages of St. Augustine, comprised in the same [168] Decree of Election salvation and the means that conduce to it. To demonstrate this synchronism of destinations or of decrees with which we are concerned, we must revert to the expedient that I have employed more than once, which states that God, before decreeing anything, considered among other ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz
... the psychic. It was exactly as if she were a dynamo generating some unknown electrical energy, which, after accumulating for a time in her organism (as in a jar), was discharged along the direction of our will, and yet I could not detect any marked synchronism of movement between these impulses and the ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland
... floor and wriggled away in perfect "step"—undulating along in such nice synchronism that their adjacent sides, only a few inches apart, formed two waving rigidly parallel lines. Deep in the lower part of the fortress they entered a large assembly room, provided with a raised platform in the center and having hundreds of short, ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith
... darning needles, borrowed from an old lady in the house where he lived. These steel rods fixed at one end vibrated with equal periods, and could be utilised in such a way that the printing wheel could be corrected into absolute synchronism by each signal current. ...
— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro


Words linked to "Synchronism" :   synchronization, temporal relation, synchronizing, synchrony, desynchronization, synchronisation, desynchronizing, asynchronism, synchronicity


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