chronological
Syllables: chro·no·log·i·cal/ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/US/ˌkɹɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
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chronological adjective: relating to time, or units of time.
Adjective
chronological (comparative more chronological, superlative most chronological)
- Relating to time, or units of time.
- He is 67 in chronological age, but has the mind and body of someone 55.
- In order of time from the earliest to the latest.
- The live report lists all the events in chronological order.
- A Book of Death and Fish is about one Peter MacAulay, an unremarkable individual who has the sea and its promises always with him, experiencing the usual strains of growing up and growing old – the death of a friend, his parents, marriage and children – all set out in chronological order and...8 November 2014, Kirsty Gunn, “A Book of Death and Fish by Ian Stephen – review”, in The Guardian
- Relating to the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur within a story, rather than the order in which they are released.
chronological meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
chronological in Tamil
- காலவரிசைப்படி
chronological in Bengali
- কালানুক্রমিক, সময়, তারিখের ক্রমানুসারে সাজানো
chronological in Malayalam
- in order (of time), sequential, consecutive
- കാലാനുക്രമമായ, നാൾവഴി അനുസരിച്ചുള്ള, കാലക്രമമനുസരിച്ചുള്ള, തുടർച്ചയായുള്ള, ആനുക്രമിക, അനുക്രമമായ
chronological in Kannada
- ಕಾಲಾನುಕ್ರಮವಾದ, ಕಾಲಗಣನ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರದ
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- chronological in Arabic
- مُرَتَّب زَمَنِيَّا murattab zamaniyyā
- chronological in Indonesian
- kronologis
- chronological in Persian
- زمانی zamâni
Examples of chronological in a sentence
- Your emergency scenario test next week will require strict chronological adherence to OPQRST procedures.
- In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude.
- A precise chronological structure and a rigorous spatial order form the foundation of the text's ortholinear narration.
Forms of chronological
| comparative | more chronological |
|---|---|
| superlative | most chronological |
Origin of chronological
From chrono- + -logical or chronology + -ical.
Words formed from chronological
- achronological
- antichronological
- astrochronological
- biochronological
- cosmochronological
- dendrochronological
- geochronological
- gyrochronological
- lepidochronological
- magnetochronological
- nonchronological
- palaeochronological
- paleochronological
- ptilochronological
- radiochronological
- sclerochronological
- skeletochronological
- tephrochronological
- thermochronological
- typochronological
- unchronological
Phrases with chronological
Questions about chronological
- What does chronological mean?
- Chronological means relating to time, or units of time.
- What is chronological in Tamil?
- Chronological in Tamil is காலவரிசைப்படி. See Chronological meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is chronological?
- Chronological is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce chronological?
- Chronological is pronounced /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/ (UK).
Words near chronological in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chronological (page history and authors); chronological (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Chronological (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chronological (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); chronological (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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