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chronological

chronological

23 3.7
Arranged in the order that events happened
  • adjective
  • /ˌkrɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
translation icon : cronológico
  • Keep it chronological.
  • chronological order
  • chronological age
  • chronological sequence

It's kind of like telling you each individual thing in a chronological, linear way.

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Examples

  • We have organized our discussion of the steps in the process in chronological order.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Name Kim Kardashian's four children in chronological order.

  • I mean, how do we understand when in historical chronological time did this work happen?

  • And it just made a lot of chronological sense to my brain.

  • And it's like I said, it's set out in a, in a more or less chronological structure.

  • That was easy to put into chronological order because I remember that stuff.

  • So these are in chronological order, roughly.

  • The files are in chronological order, starting from behind and finishing in the front row.

  • Would you prefer them alphabetized or in chronological order?

  • We have organized our discussion of the steps in the process in chronological order.

Synonyms

sequential
vschronological
17 4.9

Happening in a set order one part after another

is specifically about ordering by when events happened rather than any sequence
chronographic
vschronological
1 7.7

Put in the order events happened

is specifically about items arranged in the order events occurred in time
annalistic
vschronological
9.9

Relating to records that list events in time order, year by year

is about arranging events by time and not limited to yearly lists

Compounds

The number of full years and months since a person was born

A list that shows events in the order they happened, often with dates

A list of events in the order they happened

A list of events in the order they happened

How Chronological

consecutive
154 4.0
chronological
23 3.7
sequential
17 4.9
unordered
1 4.1

Surface Forms

chronological positive

Morphology

chronological = chronology (transparent) = chronology + ical

The adjective is a regular formation from the noun 'chronology' with the productive adjectival suffix '-ical', so the meaning 'in time order' is directly derived.

Etymology

Chronological comes from the root chron- meaning 'time', seen in words like chronicle and synchronize, and from the ending -logical meaning 'related to'. So, chronological describes things put in the order that they happened in 'time'.