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chronologically

chronologically

9 4.4
In the order that events happen
  • adverb
  • /krəˈnɑːlədʒɪkli/
translation icon : cronológicamente
  • I examine three resources and move chronologically over a period of about two decades.
  • arranged chronologically
  • organized chronologically
  • ordered chronologically

But OK, let's start with, let's go chronologically with Scipy.

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Examples

  • His wife had framed and arranged them chronologically, a row for each child.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Moving on chronologically, we come to on the left, Edward Thurlow.

  • Well, then I got, I got to go chronologically now, right?

  • And maybe one way of doing this chronologically, in a sense, is to start with children.

  • Most people tell it chronologically, meaning ABC.

  • Part 1 of this listing is arranged chronologically by the publication date of the original French volume.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The names and supporting biographical and ship information are arranged chronologically, followed by a name index.

    Academic text (1991)
  • We've tried to arrange the photographs chronologically, though the passage of so many years has made it difficult.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • From this point, the exhibition unfolds chronologically in themed sections with overlapping years.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The exhibit relates the event and its consequences chronologically through newspaper articles, photographs, and quotations.

Synonyms

sequentially
vschronologically
9 4.5

Things happen one after the other in a fixed order

relates to events by their time order without stressing strict consecutive steps
successively
vschronologically
3 4.4

One thing happens after another

relates to time order but can include nonconsecutive events or gaps
temporally
vschronologically
3 7.2

In a way that relates to time or the order of events

focuses specifically on ordering events by time rather than general time relation

How Chronological

sequentially
9 4.5
chronologically
9 4.4
randomly
126 2.4

Surface Forms

chronologically positive

Morphology

chronologically = chronological (transparent) = chronology + ical + ly

Standard adverb formation from the adjective 'chronological' using the productive suffix '-ly', so the relation is directly derivable.

Etymology

Chronologically comes from the Greek root chron- meaning 'time', the same root in the familiar word chronicle. So, to arrange events chronologically is to put them in 'time order', from earliest to latest.