different between simultaneity vs synchronous

English

Etymology

From French simultanéité.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?m?lt??ni??ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sa?m?lt??ni?ti/
• Rhymes: -i??ti

Noun

simultaneity (countable and uncountable, plural simultaneities)

1. The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.
2. (music) More than one complete musical texture occurring at the same time. This first appeared in the music of Charles Ives, and is common in the music of Conlon Nancarrow, and others.

Synonyms

• (state of being simultaneous): concurrentness, synchroneity; see also Thesaurus:simultaneousness

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See also

• simultaneous adj
• simultaneously adv
• pitch simultaneity noun

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin synchronus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (súnkhronos, “contemporaneous”), from ???- (sun-, “with, together”) + ?????? (khrónos, “time”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??k??n?s/

Adjective

synchronous (comparative more synchronous, superlative most synchronous)

1. At the same time, at the same frequency.

   Synonyms: simultaneous, in phase, in synch, in step

   Antonyms: asynchronous, antisynchronous

2. (computing, of communication) Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete.

   Synonyms: blocking, modal, single-threaded

   Antonym: asynchronous

Hyponyms

• sun-synchronous

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