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chronos

chronos noun: a steady, quantifiable beat or rhythm; measured or objective time.

Noun

chronos

  1. A steady, quantifiable beat or rhythm; measured or objective time.
    • Hazağ ∪−−⊥: This foot has the first chronos (time-unit), a half syllable followed by three syllables, the last being prolonged.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development

Proper noun capitalized: Chronos

Chronos

  1. (Greek) The personification of time.

Forms of chronos

alternative formChronus
alternative formKhronos

Origin of chronos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Χρόνος (Khrónos), from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”)

Questions about chronos

What does chronos mean?
Chronos means a steady, quantifiable beat or rhythm; measured or objective time.
What part of speech is chronos?
Chronos can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near chronos in the dictionary

  1. chronopotentiometry
  2. chronopsychological
  3. chronopsychology
  4. chronopsychophysiological
  5. chronopsychophysiology
  6. chronos
  7. chronoscope
  8. chronoscopes
  9. chronoscopic
  10. chronoscopically
  11. chronoscopy

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