synchronic

synchronic
/sin kron"ik, sing-/, adj. Ling.
having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
Also, synchronical. Cf. diachronic.
[1825-35; < LL synchron(us) SYNCHRONOUS + -IC]

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