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diachronous en · ADJ

Etymology

By surface analysis, dia- + chron- + -ous; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.

Meanings

1. Varying in age from place to place
2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of diachronic.
   alt of diachronic
   • Results using synchronous and diachronous studies are often different and do not take into account the growth of literatures, which could affect citation counts received by a given paper.
   • It takes an intellectual leap to reject such hierarchical constructions of prehistory and to perceive the past as a diachronous system of nonsychronous events closesly tied to ecolocial and biological phenomena. 2023, Deborah Barsky, Jan Ritch-Frel, How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?:

Forms

Deriveds

diachronously