diachronously

English

Etymology

From diachronous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

diachronously (not comparable)

1. In a diachronous manner; carried out or occurring with diachrony.
   • 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, →DOI:

     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.

   • 2011, A. L. WhitchurchA. CarterH. D. Sinclairet 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 442–482:

     The Pyrenees represents an orogen that developed diachronously, from east to west, between the Late Cretaceous and Miocene.

   • 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:

     We propose that multiple Great Unconformities developed diachronously and represent regional tectonic features rather than a synchronous global phenomenon.

Coordinate terms

• synchronously

Related terms

• diachronically, synchronically