Chronology
[krə'nɒlədʒɪ] or [krə'nɑlədʒi]
Definition
(noun.) the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events.
(noun.) a record of events in the order of their occurrence.
(noun.) an arrangement of events in time.
Editor: Nicolas--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
Checker: Wyatt
Definition
n. the science of time.—ns. Chronol′oger Chronol′ogist.—adjs. Chronolog′ic -al.—adv. Chronolog′ically.
Inputed by Artie
Examples
- His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He reckoned all dates from the birth of Christ, and through his works the use of Christian chronology became common in Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The calcareous remains of marine animals in the solid body of the earth bear witness of a period to which no other species of chronology is able to remount. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Rodger