dichronic

Adjective

dichroic (comparative more dichroic, superlative most dichroic)

1. Exhibiting dichroism.
2. Exhibiting dichromatism; dichromatic.

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Adjective

diachronic (comparative more diachronic, superlative most diachronic)

1. Occurring over or changing with time.
   • The sum total of their acts forms a pattern of diachronic historical laws, describing the transition from one social system to the next, and also functional laws showing the interrelation of such features as technology, forms of property, class barriers, state institutions, and ideology.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...

   Antonyms:

   synchronic

2. Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time.
   • It is plain that natural science has developed more diachronic concern, more of the longer historical approach in its interests and repertory, in the last two centuries than in the two millennia before.1963, Alfred Louis Kroeber, An Anthropologist Looks at History, page 169

   Antonyms:

   synchronic