homochronous

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adjective

Of two signals, such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time.

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Meanings

adjectivehomochronous (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecommunicationsOf two signals, such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time.

    In fact, the various multiplexes in the network are homochronous.

    1969, White Book, volume 3, International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee
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    Two signals having different nominal signaling rates, and not stemming from the same clock or from homochronous clocks are usually heterochronous.

    1980, Glossary of telecommunication terms, United States Federal Supply Service, page 55
  2. not comparableOccurring at the same time.

    Broken lateritic pisolites in the lower part of the Nadarra Formation show that it is homochronous with, or post-dates, the main laterite development.

    1958, J. R. H. McWhae, The Stratigraphy of Western Australia, page 129
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    Five events in the developing geniculocortical pathway were found to be homochronous (that is, they occur at the same stage of the Caecal Period ± 4% CP— in all species).

    1989, Seeing contour and colour: based on the proceedings of the Third International Symposium of the Northern Eye Institute, Manchester, UK, 9-13 August 1987

    Regardless of what genetic or homochronous relationship exists between love and sensual desire, they have nothing to do with each other in respect to their meaning and as phenomena.

    2011, Georg Simmel, The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms
  3. datednot comparablemedicineOccurring at the same age in successive generations.

    Homochronous and homologous manifestations of hereditary diseases

    1936, The Eugenics Review, volume 27, page 104
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    Hereditary insanity may appear in children at the same time that it appeared in the parent, and it is then called homochronous.

    1894, A Practical Manual of Mental Medicine, page 39

    Hereditary glaucoma belongs to the so-called homochronous diseases, by which is actually understood a herditary disease which manifests itself within a certain period of life.

    1947, E. Munksgaard, Leber's Disease; a Genealogic, Genetic and Clinical Study of 101 Cases of Retrobulbar Optic Neuritis in 20 Danish Families

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
simultaneous

Origin

From homo- + -chronous.

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