Meaning of chronological in English:
chronological
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adjective
1(of a record of events) following the order in which they occurred.
‘the entries are in chronological order’- ‘The chapters, which followed a chronological order, were basically chapters on the history of politics and ideas.’
- ‘The records are lovingly arranged in his home in chronological order.’
- ‘The events are presented in chronological order of occurrence.’
- ‘Nearly 90 paintings and drawings are displayed in 11 rooms, organised thematically within a loosely chronological sequence.’
- ‘The narrative of the exhibition is broadly chronological, overlaid with a thematic approach.’
- ‘Furthermore, a mostly chronological account, while sensible, sometimes works against dramatic storytelling.’
- ‘Here is a rough chronological list of the members of the Dialectical school.’
- ‘Clarke writes briskly, his narrative strictly chronological, starting with Judy's parents and ending with her funeral.’
- ‘Rogers explores the number of different ways Page is thought about through a loosely chronological record of her life.’
- ‘Kala's book is not straight chronological biography.’
- ‘Prior to that date no chronological diary appears to have been written of the decisions (of all kinds, both economic and strictly religious) taken by the Society.’
- ‘The back of the card should contain a chronological listing of the dates the dog came in and the prices charged.’
- ‘It was one of those chronological lists of events in a chart, now known as timelines for some reason to do with management-speak or computers.’
- ‘A chronological resume provides a clearer picture of a person's past achievements, they say.’
- ‘Penberthy's initial decision to put the poems in chronological sequence of composition established a solid reference point, a relatively easy plan to conceive and a very hard one to carry out.’
- ‘McAdams's story proceeds mostly as a chronological narrative of events on the island, from the earliest planning of the facility to its eventual closure at the end of the war.’
- ‘The writer's intention is that, filled with chronological accounts of important events, his work should persist till universal dissolution.’
- ‘Consequently, readers seeking a more traditional chronological narrative of political events might need to look elsewhere.’
- ‘The story is the chronological succession of events that serve as the foundation or the building blocks of the narrative.’
- ‘He provides the reader with a riveting, impartial, and chronological account of events on the ground.’
- ‘How they felt, and coped, and suffered and celebrated is what I always want to know, not just a chronological outline of events.’
sequential, consecutive, in sequence, in order of time, in order, ordered, progressive, serialView synonyms- 1.1Calculated in terms of the passage of time.‘medical decisions should be based on the individual's biological age, not chronological age’
- ‘We treat ‘breakfast’ as a relative rather than chronological term around here and apply it to the first meal of the day, whenever that might occur.’
- ‘And third, the nature of the chronological and psychological passage from youth to adulthood has changed in extraordinary ways.’
- ‘In chronological terms, Paviland is early in the European series of burials and is actually the earliest with a firm radiocarbon date measured directly on human bone.’
- ‘At one extreme lies the view that these rights are superior to civil and political rights in terms of an appropriate value hierarchy and in chronological terms.’
- ‘Then also, by the same reasoning, it cannot impose the death penalty upon an adult (by chronological age) with a mental capacity similar to that of that same 7-year-old.’
- ‘Your biological age can be different from your chronological age.’
- ‘This time, the result was rather more encouraging: I'd turned the clock back 21 years, bringing my chronological age and biological age into line.’
- ‘Both plants are the same chronological age and were grown in parallel under the same environmental conditions.’
- ‘I have a chronological date, dating back 40 years ago, from the 1960s and 1970s, to when that party, in 1991 went through this thing and did nothing.’
- ‘We need to bring an antiquated world into real time. We need to bury much of the chronological past that really is no more than a celebration of mayhem.’
- ‘It is true that he recognizes the scene as an event in his life, and to this degree acknowledges the chronological link with his past self.’
- ‘The chronological differences between past and present in time travel are marked.’
- ‘As I said in response to the earlier question, we give our priority according to the chronological date on which the petitions were received, not the number of people who signed them.’
- ‘When two cultures base their interaction on yet a third, an important connection is established that transcends geographical, national, and chronological boundaries.’
- ‘In commemorating the 50th anniversary of the formation of the International Committee of the Fourth International we are not simply marking a chronological event.’
- ‘Transitions are brief events that mark chronological movement from one state to another.’
- ‘It is very nicely laid out and color coded with little house-like images and labels dated to preserve a sense of chronological continuity.’
- ‘She could have delved deeper into Huxley's life and times, skipped some of the diary dates and jumped beyond the strictly chronological limits.’
- ‘Though the arrangement seems at first to be a chronological one, dating from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the grouping is actually methodological.’
- ‘The organization of the volume is accordingly not thematic but, as far as possible, chronological, by the dates of the philosopher discussed.’
- 1.2Relating to the establishment of dates of past events.‘the diary provided a chronological framework for the events’
- ‘By contrast, scientists working from a creation perspective view all significant geological events within a Biblical chronological framework.’
- ‘Little, a history professor, is good at chronological exposition and boasts a hefty bibliography.’
- ‘I am just trying to ascertain - you are advancing a sort of tight chronological argument based on dates.’
- ‘The chronological studies showed that the phyllochron is correlated with growth events.’
- ‘Its treatment of political events is chronological and quite detailed.’
- ‘A chronological synopsis of essential clinical events should be extracted from the medical record before the autopsy is begun and helps to guide the process.’
- ‘Phylogenetic resolution and chronological dating of speciation events in Lycopersicon has proved difficult.’
- ‘The final section, ‘men and events’, gives a chronological approach to the period.’
- ‘In much recent literature the term ‘Caledonian’ has also been applied to igneous and metamorphic events in a chronological sense.’
- ‘The remaining task of this introduction is to provide the basic chronological framework for the period c.400-c.1000.’
- ‘The exhibition is arranged thematically within a chronological framework with works rarely seen or examined outside their country of origin.’
- ‘Finally, employing this chronological and geographical framework, Mosk surveys Japan's modern industrial and urban history in general.’
- ‘Moore's approach is chronological with interpretation of important events and personalities based upon her study of the Zambelli records.’
- ‘The former provides a fairly precise chronological and geographical framework in which we can define the broad shape of the conquest of Britain in the first century.’
- ‘It also offers the chronological details of the event that spanned around a month and carried the views expressed by almost all the top leaders and the newspapers.’
- ‘He establishes a traditional chronological framework, using life events and building projects to explore the nature of Corb's creative process.’
- ‘By adopting relatively broad geographical and chronological frameworks, Dyer's book raises a number of issues that beg for further study.’
- ‘She says that rather than view events in a chronological, linear, and hierarchical way, Native Americans view events in relation to other events.’
- ‘The broadly chronological approach reveals a number of stages in her development as an artist.’
- ‘Rogers adopts a strictly chronological approach, which makes his book an engaging, inviting read.’
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