Definition of "synchrony" [syn•chro•ny]

• Simultaneous occurrence; synchronism. (noun)

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• "Participants were invited to sit down, knit for a while in synchrony, and come and go as they pleased."
• "Transport/container transport costs have varied in synchrony with oil costs, and manufacturers are once again seeing the need to build manufacturing capacity as close as possible to their markets."
• "So it has moving parts, the moving parts function in synchrony, in appropriate sequence and in synchrony with one another."