Diachronous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Diachronous is an adjective meaning (geology) Varying in age from place to place.
Meaning
(geology) Varying in age from place to place.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of diachronic.
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metachronous, heterochronous, chronogeographic, anachronous, anachronistical, typochronological.
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