- occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous: The longest running “Turkey Trot” 5K is being held as a synchronous race in more than a dozen cities this Thanksgiving morning, and all proceeds will benefit the food bank.
- (especially in education) occurring in real time, as with participants logged in at an appointed time for a live lecture or discussion: Lectures for this blended learning class are synchronous webinars and will not be recorded or posted for asynchronous access.Synchronous telemedicine connects patients for instantaneous interactions with a medical professional.
- going on at the same rate and exactly together; recurring together.
- having the same frequency and zero phase difference.
- relating to or being a computer operation that must complete before another event can begin: The synchronous operation requires the host CPU to block subsequent activities until the current process concludes.
- of, relating to, or operating using fixed-time intervals coordinated by a clock, as in paired data transmission.
- geostationary.
- occurring at the same time; contemporaneous
- (of periodic phenomena, such as voltages) having the same frequency and phase
- occurring or recurring exactly together and at the same rate
