An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SYNCHRONIC
synchronic
(adjective) concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents; “synchronic linguistics”
synchronous, synchronal, synchronic
(adjective) occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; “recovery was synchronous with therapy”- Jour.A.M.A.; “a synchronous set of clocks”; “the synchronous action of a bird’s wings in flight”; “synchronous oscillations”
synchronic
(adjective) (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
synchronic (not comparable)
Occurring at a specific point in time.
Antonym: diachronic
(linguistics) Relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.
Antonym: diachronic
Usage notes
• (linguistics, relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history): Synchronic comparison of two languages focuses on categorizing phenomena typologically, whereas a diachronic comparison may be looking for common origins or causes of these phenomena, viewed as genetic relationships.
Source: Wiktionary
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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