Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The science that deals with the determination of dates and the sequence of events.
- n. The arrangement of events in time.
- n. A chronological list or table.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of time. The method of measuring or computing time by regular divisions or periods, according to the revolutions of the sun or moon.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable the science of determining the order in which events occurred.
- n. countable an arrangement of events into chronological order; called a timeline when involving graphical elements.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an arrangement of events in time
- n. a record of events in the order of their occurrence
- n. the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events
Etymologies
- From chrono- (“relating to time”) + -logy (“study of, account of”), after New Latin chronologia. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And the result is, that _the astronomical chronology of the Egyptian monuments sustains the Bible chronology_. [”
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
“So what Daniel was conceived on island and they left the others so she wouldnt die … its plausible.btw. the chronology is getting really confusing.”
“The character of such works, as Carl Freedman has written, “lies neither in chronology nor in technological hardware but in the cognitive presentation of alternatives to actuality and the status quo.””
“Wardle suggests that it was compelling but marred by sickly sentimentality, and also proposes that Hazlitt might even have been anticipating some of the experiments in chronology made by later novelists.”
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
“The similarities were in chronology and background.”
“The calendar and the clock, the chronology is running on all of us, Wynn said.”
“Painting it as going "backwards" simply because of chronology is just plain BS.”
“This arrogance of chronology is why the West has persisted in its misunderstanding of Islam.”
“In my previous post, I suggested that while fooling around with chronology is more or less identified as the one properly "experimental" mode of fiction writing, few critics and reviewers express much interest in, or tolerance for, other kinds of literary experiment.”
“Because of the two leaps in chronology, do you have a vast store of untold stories that occurred in the intervening years?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chronology’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Blippets
Time~sphere phenomena, manipulations, fluctuations, processes, measurements, and oddities. For use in building my machine.
microfortnight, transilient, instant, flash, breath, blink, beat, momentary, nimesha, truti, second, centisecond and 120 more...
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Time
clock, forever, never, ever, ago, when, then, now, past, present, future, timeline and 119 more...
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Archaeology
Words for shovelbums!
trowel, mattock, chopper, n-transform, c-transform, taphonomy, processual, post-processual, microarchaeology, site, horizon, battleship curve and 33 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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chrono-, chron-
of or relating to time
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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A Matter Of Time
Favorite time-related words.
vespertine, twilight, gloaming, eftsoon, eventide, dawn, eos, dusk, witching hour, ephemeral, candlemark, autumnal and 122 more...
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theinfonaut's Words
pithy, voraciousness, aphorism, crumple, flaneur, coquettish, grace, discriminating, oscillation, assumption, nasturtium, petiole and 90 more...
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Facade
civilization, illumination, clone, danger, enigma, garden, green, healer, laugh, lord, pledge, poem and 122 more...
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ologies
technology, zymology, zygology, zoophytology, zoophysiology, zoopathology, zoonosology, zoology, zoogeology, zooarchaeology, xylology, vulcanology and 850 more...
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Greek Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lethargy, biopsy, enthusiasm, odyssey, synonym, calypso, character, eclectic, chronology, cosmetic, cynical, hypothesis and 128 more...
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MrWindUpBird's Words
juxtaposition, cosmonaut, cinema, film, movie, lemon, tactile, paper, jedi, cuddle, eyeglasses, spectacles and 61 more...
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Cartographies of Time
timeline, historiography, annal, Eviatar Zerubavel, presbyter, temporality, gnomic, genealogy, chronicle, line, intermediate meta..., interval and 11 more...
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Year 7 key words
Words that will help you understand History in Year 7 much, much better!
continuity, progress, Roman, Saxon, Viking, Norman, invader, evidence, chronology, century, decade, AD and 5 more...
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Hannibal
punic, ba'al, toffit, molech, cognate, moabite, pathogen, apologist, legate, shoals, immolate, emnity and 41 more...
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