Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The science that deals with the determination of dates and the sequence of events.
- noun The arrangement of events in time.
- noun A chronological list or table.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable the
science of determining theorder in whichevents occurred. - noun countable an
arrangement of events intochronological order; called atimeline when involving graphical elements.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an arrangement of events in time
- noun a record of events in the order of their occurrence
- noun the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 Robert Patterson 1857
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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 Tail Section » Discussion for Episode 5.3 “Jughead” 2009
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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 2009
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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.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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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.”
Genre Fiction 2010
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Painting it as going "backwards" simply because of chronology is just plain BS.
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The similarities were in chronology and background.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez 2008
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The similarities were in chronology and background.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez 2008
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The similarities were in chronology and background.
Mexico's Lincoln: The ecstasy and agony of Benito Juarez 2008
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The calendar and the clock, the chronology is running on all of us, Wynn said.
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