Dictionary
syn•chron•ic
Pronunciation: (sin-kron'ik, sing-), [key]—
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,syn•chron'i•cal.Cf.
diachronic. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.