Meanings
- not comparableIn a diachronous manner; carried out or occurring with diachrony.
The Pyrenees represents an orogen that developed diachronously, from east to west, between the Late Cretaceous and Miocene.
2011, A. L. Whitchurch, A. Carter, H. D. Sinclair, et al., “Sediment routing system evolution within a diachronously uplifting orogen: insights from detrital zircon thermochronological analyses from the South-Central Pyrenees”, in American Journal of Science, volume 311, number 5, →DOI, pages 442–4822 more examples
Using the literature of human and medical genetics, the results of a synchronous citation study of obsolescence over a 19-year period were compared with the results of a diachronous citation study. If the first two years of synchronous data are excluded, the rate of obsolescence measured synchronously is statistically equivalent to the rate of obsolescence measured diachronously.
1987, E. Ray Stinson, F.W. Lancaster, “Synchronous versus diachronous methods in the measurement of obsolescence by citation studies”, in Journal of Information Science, volume 13, number 2, →DOIWe propose that multiple Great Unconformities developed diachronously and represent regional tectonic features rather than a synchronous global phenomenon.
2020, RM Flowers, FA Macdonald, CS Siddoway, R Havranek, “Diachronous development of Great Unconformities before Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth”, in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, volume 117, number 19, →DOI, →PMID, pages 10172–10180
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