diachronous

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adjective

Varying in age from place to place

“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.”

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Meanings

adjectivediachronous (comparative more diachronous, superlative most diachronous)

comparative more diachronous · superlative most diachronous

  1. geographyVarying in age from place to place
  2. alternativeAlternative 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.

    1 more example

    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.

    2023, Deborah Barsky, Jan Ritch-Frel, How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?

Origin

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

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APA

diachronous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diachronous

MLA

“diachronous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diachronous. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diachronous,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diachronous.

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