Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Arranged in order of time of occurrence.
- adjective Relating to or in accordance with chronology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time: as, a chronological table or narrative; a chronological arrangement of works of art.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In order of
time from theearliest to thelatest - adjective In units of time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or arranged according to temporal order
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bringing you here created considerable temporal strain -- what we call chronological warping -- and while you were asleep, I dispatched a field team to try to figure out what's involved.
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This deal where they recently put the books in "chronological" order just didn't suit me.
Wait - So There Will Be More Narnia? Who Really Cares Anymore? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Behold these tweets, which are pasted here in chronological order:
Elizabeth Taylor tweets her review of 'This Is It': 'I wept from pure joy' | EW.com 2009
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These are numbered in chronological order, from January to December.
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Here's the list I've come up with (in chronological order):
Talk, talk talk, talk, talk... blakesrealm 2009
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These are numbered in chronological order, from January to December.
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Did you write it in chronological order, or did you keep shifting back and forth between the Korean War period in the early 1950s, New York in the 1980s, and China in the 1930s, as you do in the book?
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These are numbered in chronological order, from January to December.
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The summer school lasted for a week, and this gave the foreign visitors a rare opportunity to see the whole of the Escorial systematically and in chronological order, which is not a feat that can be accomplished even in a single day.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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These are numbered in chronological order, from January to December.
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