diachronous

adj

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. Varying in age from place to place

  2. Alternative form 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.

The neighborhood

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