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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of temporal concurrence; absence of synchronism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of synchronism or correspondence in time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.
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- noun
asynchrony
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times
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April 29, 2006, 3: 49 am phentermine says: phentermine asynchronism patterns doggedness.
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Then followed palpitations of a distressing character, with loud blowing murmur, and pulse of 120 to 140, for which she was seen by an eminent physician, who diagnosed them to be caused by 'slight ventricular asynchronism, with atonic condition of the cardiac as well as of all other muscles of the body.'
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
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