chronophagous

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UK/kɹɒˈnɒ.fə.ɡəs/

adjective

Time-consuming.

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adjectivechronophagous (comparative more chronophagous, superlative most chronophagous)

comparative more chronophagous · superlative most chronophagous

  1. rareTime-consuming.

    Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition

    1994, Aziz Al-Azmeh, “Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition”, in Frank E. Reynolds, David Tracy, editors, Religion and Practical Reason: New Essays in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions (Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, chapter title, page 163
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    The method, however, cannot be considered strictly scientific and is much more tedious and chronophagous than the direct determination.

    1908, Harvey Washington Wiley, Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis; a Manual for the Study of Soils, Fertilizers, and Agricultural Products; for the Use of Analysists, Teachers, and Students of Agricultural Chemistry, 2nd rev. and enl. edition, volumes II (Fertilizers and Insecticides), Easton, Pa.: Chemical Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 425

    As a chronophagous activity as it is, reducing the population's leisure budget, transports also imply a great expenditure of physical and nervous energy to the detriment of manpower's potentiality […]

    The Social Future: Journal of Sociology and Politicology

    1978, Sorin M. Rǎdulescu, Viitorul Social: Revistǎ de Sociologie și Științe Politice [The Social Future: Journal of Sociology and Politicology], Bucharest: Academia Republicii Socialiste Romǎnia, →OCLC, page 187

    [W]e have historical masses construed as individual states or permanent conditions of phylogeny. They are conceived as supra-historical masses which speak in the tones of a chronophagous discourse. Thus societies and nations rise and fall, but do not change in any serious sense, and the wheel of fortune is animated, quite literally, by internal, intransitive, self-subsistent pneumatic impulses ([Johann Gottfried] Herder's Kräfte) and which together can be described by the term Volksgeist.

    1996, Aziz Al-Azmeh, “Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant”, in Anindita Niyogi Balslev, editor, Cross-cultural Conversation (Initiation) (American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism Series; no. 5), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91

    Because modern life is chronophagous and resting necessary, we have invented hypnotherapy—apprenticeship while sleeping.

    2012 October 27, Stanislas Kraland, “The French already lacked sleep in 1962”, in The Huffington Post

    Though highly accurate, this method is chronophagous and expensive, making the large numbers of genes required for sequencing a challenge. This was really the start of the demand for rapid and low-cost sequencing technologies, which were eventually met in 2005 by the development of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) (also known as next-generation sequencing, NGS).

    2014, Daphne Karfunkel-Doron, Zippora Brownstein, Karen B. Avraham, “Genomic Applications in Audiological Medicine”, in Dhavendra Kumar, Charis Eng, editors, Genomic Medicine: Principles and Practice (Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics), 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 674

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