diachronous
English edit
Etymology edit
By surface analysis, dia- + chron- + -ous; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
Adjective edit
diachronous (comparative more diachronous, superlative most diachronous)
- (geology) Varying in age from place to place
- 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.
- 2023, Deborah Barsky, Jan Ritch-Frel, How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?:
- 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.