asynchrony.

A lack of temporal alignment or coordination among events or processes.

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Words that belong together

• asynchrony between processes
• developmental asynchrony

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Asynchrony between the processes left one stage waiting for another.

Developmental asynchrony described different rates rather than a single uniform delay.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: uncommon.