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When you act in an aloof fashion towards others, you purposely do not participate in activities with them; instead, you remain distant and detached.
An antecedent of something, such as an event or organization, has happened or existed before it and can be similar to it.
An autonomous person makes their own decisions without being influenced by anyone else; an autonomous country or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself.
A chronicle is a record of historical events that arranges those events in the correct order in which they happened.
A chronological history arranges events in the order that they happened.
If you concatenate two or more things, you join them together by linking them one after the other.
A concerted effort is intensive and determined work that is performed by two people or more to complete a task.
Something is concomitant when it happens at the same time as something else and is connected with it in some fashion.
Concurrent events happen at the same time.
A confluence is a situation where two or more things meet or flow together at a single point or area; a confluence usually refers to two streams joining together.
A contemporary object exists at the same time as something else or exists at the current time.
Contiguous things are in contact with or near each other; contiguous events happen one right after the other without a break.
Two things that are convergent are meeting or coming together at one point in time or space.
A situation or thing that is discordant does not fit in with other things; therefore, it is disagreeable, strange, or unpleasant.
Things that are disparate are clearly different from each other and belong to different groups or classes.
Divergent opinions differ from each other; divergent paths move apart from one another.
When something ensues, it happens after or as a result of another event.
An entourage is a group of assistants, servants, and other people who tag along with an important person.
Two irreconcilable opinions or points of view are so opposed to each other that it is not possible to accept both of them or reach a settlement between them.
The juxtaposition of two objects is the act of positioning them side by side so that the differences between them are more readily visible.
A nexus is a connection or a series of connections between a number of people, things, or ideas that often form the center of a system or situation.
A first event is a precursor to a second event if the first event is responsible for the development or existence of the second.
A predecessor comes before someone else in a job or is an ancestor of someone.
The propinquity of a thing is its nearness in location, relationship, or similarity to another thing.
Proximity is how close or near one thing is to another.
A schism causes a group or organization to divide into two groups as a result of differences in their aims and beliefs.
One thing that is subsequent to another is later than—or after it—in time.
A symbiotic relationship is one in which two organisms, organizations, or people intimately depend on each other, both acting to benefit the relationship.
Synergy is the extra energy or additional effectiveness gained when two groups or organizations combine their efforts instead of working separately.
Something that is temporal deals with the present and somewhat brief time of this world.
Doing something in unison is doing it all together at one time.
Adj.
synchronous
SING-kroh-nuhs
Context
Two synchronous developments were the invention of refrigeration and the completion of the railroad; because they happened at the same time, these two technologies were used together to great effect. The synchronous or simultaneous abilities of trains traveling across the country while their large refrigeration units kept food fresh changed the way people ate. Now a salad from California and green beans from Virginia could be eaten in synchronous fashion or at same time in New York City.
Quiz:Try again!
What is an example of synchronous actions?
The movements of two dancers that occur at the same time.
A car that drives over railroad tracks right before a train arrives.
A goal in soccer that is scored just seconds after the game ends.
SyncedSynchronous events are synced so that they occur at the same time.
Examples
Strogatz explores dozens of strange synchronous phenomena, from hands clapping in unison to the rhythmic flashing of fireflies to laser beams produced by trillions of atoms emitting light waves in phase at the same frequency.
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Discover Magazine
The other satellites, which are measuring water, clouds, aerosols and other characteristics of our planet, are "sun-synchronous" and fly over each part of the earth at the same hour.
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Wired
The Chicxulub Crater, located in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, was impacted by an asteroid approximately 66,038,000 years ago, an event that was "synchronous to within a gnat's eyebrow" of when the dinosaurs went extinct, says the study's lead author Paul Renne, director of the University of California, Berkeley's Geochronology Center.
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U.S. News & World Report
Shot in one take, it features all four members of the pop group performing synchronous moves—such as mimicking figure skating—on the gym equipment conveyor belts.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Greek: Agents of Change These young men jump at will and then jump synchronously ... but not for long.
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