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  • Adjective:
    presenting a summary or general view of a whole
    presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially of the first three gospels of the New Testament

单词词源

synoptic (adj.)
1763, "pertaining to synopsis," from Modern Latin synopticus, from Late Latin synopsis (see synopsis). Greek synoptikos meant "taking a general or comprehensive view," and the sense "affording a general view" in English emerged by mid-19c. Specifically of the first three Gospels from 1841, on notion of "giving an account of events from the same point of view." Related Synoptical (1660s).

双语例句

1. Synoptic analysis of a snow storm event in shandong peninsula .
2. A synoptic analysis of heavy fog in winter in 2004 .
3. Extratropical storm surge ; synoptic pattern ; probable maximum extratropical storm surge .
4. This movement is often contrasted with " continental " philosophy , which is more expansive and synoptic , tends to see itself as allied to literary , cultural and social studies , and is more likely to draw on subjective experience .
5. Supporting this conjecture is the discovery that the monsoon lows over the summer continents are not always evident as persistent features on the daily synoptic charts .

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