chronology

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Following the chronology is a list of thefts from this year which remain unsolved.

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  1. noun The science that deals with the determination of dates and the sequence of events.
  2. noun The arrangement of events in time.
  3. noun A chronological list or table.

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  • Following the chronology is a list of thefts from this year which remain unsolved. —  PhiloBiblos
  • But as geophysicist Pascal Richet demonstrates in this readable popular history of chronology, the geologic calendar implicit in today's view of nature was not shared by earlier generations. —  The Chicago Blog
  • Rather than following a chronology, the majority of the eleven chapters of Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell are divided into different aspects of the race. —  PezCyclingNews.com
  • Their first step after developing the chronology was to use measured climate data for the period 1907-2006 to determine to which climatic parameter tree radial growth was most responsive: temperature, precipitation or drought severity, as represented by the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) for the month of June. —  New Content on CO2 Science
  • How do you write about twenty years without turning the novel into a boring chronology -- this happened, then that happened, then that happened? —  The Elegant Variation
 

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  1. = French chronologie = Spanish cronología = Portuguese chronologia = Italian cronologia, from Greek as if * χρονολογία, from χρόνος, time, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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