Homochronous

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Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (telecommunications) Of two signals, such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time.
2. Occurring at the same time.
3. (pathology, of a disease, dated) Occurring at the same age in successive generations.

Example Sentences

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

Two signals having different nominal signaling rates, and not stemming from the same clock or from homochronous clocks are usually heterochronous.

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

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).

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.

Hereditary insanity may appear in children at the same time that it appeared in the parent, and it is then called homochronous.

Homochronous and homologous manifestations of hereditary diseases

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.

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