diachronous

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

diachronous (comparative more diachronous, superlative most diachronous)

1. (geology) 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.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• diachronously