Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

diachronous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: di-achronous
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Varying in age from place to place

adj

Alternative form of diachronic.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

more diachronous (comparative) most diachronous (superlative)

Derived Forms

diachronously

Questions

What does diachronous mean?: Varying in age from place to place
Where does diachronous come from?: By surface analysis, dia- + chron- + -ous; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.

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