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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chronological
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chronological order (=the order that things happened in time)
▪ The paintings are arranged in chronological order.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
▪ Carrow also suggests that, for children scoring below their chronological age equivalent, the separate subtests can provide useful qualitative information.
▪ The same ranging of, or variability in, Piagetian developmental levels is found at any chronological age group.
▪ If so, chronological age might influence treatment policy.
▪ There has never been a time more conscious of chronological age than our own.
▪ Test scores can be compared directly with the scores obtained by normal children of the same chronological age.
order
▪ They are neat, legible, easily handled and can be filed in chronological order. 2.
▪ Indicate these by placing them in a chronological order and the specific amount of time required to complete them.
▪ We shall consider each of them in the chronological order in which they came to Anselm's attention.
▪ The corridor is devoted to old black-and-white photographs showing, in chronological order, the construction of the house.
▪ Second rule is: All articles written on the Grand Canyon must be written in chronological order.
▪ Try a tight chronological order to connect each event.
▪ Do they do it all at once, or in chronological order, or just as it seems to emerge?
▪ The more or less chronological order of the essays allows certain themes to emerge and evolve over time.
sequence
▪ In regions where early civilizations had flourished new research and discoveries filled out the chronological sequences.
▪ The predominant motive for writing this type of history is to demonstrate chronological sequence.
▪ Starting in 1993, the label plans to re-release all the Smiths albums on compact disc in chronological sequence.
▪ Much more is also needed towards the building of a full chronological sequence of the main wares and vessel types.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Does one experience past lives in reverse chronological order?
▪ In each case the idea is to link a point in the sequence or group with a secure chronological fixed point.
▪ Much effort went into the establishment of regional chronological systems, and the description of the development of culture in each area.
▪ Over the years the generations had gotten into a chronological muddle.
▪ The sample is far too small to suggest that these data have a chronological significance, but the results are technologically significant.
▪ Try a tight chronological order to connect each event.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chronological

Chronologic \Chron`o*log"ic\, Chronological \Chron`o*log"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?.] Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables.
--Raleigh. -- Chron`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chronological

"arranged in order by time," 1610s, from chronology + -ical. Chronological order is attested by 1754. Related: Chronologic (1610s); chronologically.

Wiktionary
chronological

a. 1 In order of time from the earliest to the latest 2 In units of time.

WordNet
chronological

adj. relating to or arranged according to temporal order; "chronological age"

Usage examples of "chronological".

The Chronotaxis or Chronological Table at the end of the book I have made out from the work by the Bollandists, which seems to have been prepared with scholarly and judicious diligence.

World War stories, gave an outline of the struggle up to the time of the signing of the armistice, November 11, 1918, and contained in general chronological order most of the stories that to children from ten to sixteen years of age would be of greatest interest, and give the clearest understanding of the titanic contest.

How to accomplish this as well as to give a chronological history on the subject of inks generally, both as to their genesis, the effect of time and the elements, the determination of the constituents and the constitution of inks, their value as to lasting qualities, their removal and restoration, is the object of this work.

Donna had tried to keep up with the Leaps in chronological ordernot by the years Sam was in but by the sequence here in her own time.

C H A P T E K 0 V A C T 0 0 K H I s time driving, playing it all through in his mind, trying to sort into chronological order the things he had learned today, patching the gaps with educated guesses.

Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events.

The story was that the Chronological Patrol had once had some sort of installation on Mars, one they wanted kept very private indeed.

I lined them up in chronological order and watched her age all the way up to the last one taken in Boston.

In a chronological sort, the first I come up with has him living in Japan.

Nicholai could only recall shattered tesserae of experience, the binding grout of chronological sequence dissolved by the drugs they pumped into him.

Nicholai began to accommodate himself to the routines and chronological articulations of solitary life.

Some chronological difficulties have likewise been discovered by the nice eyes of Tillemont and Muratori, in this supposed association of Philip to the empire.

They, too, have been charged with discursiveness, with disregard of chronological order (which is in itself a crime), with unconventionality of form (which is an impropriety).

Not even a man, really, if manhood was determined by chronological age.

She looked hurt and confused again and even younger than her chronological age.