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Chronogram

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Noun
  1. 1
    A sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals) in which letters correspond to numeric values, stand for a particular date (usually the date of inscription) when rearranged.
  2. 2
    A phylogenetic tree that has branch spans proportional to evolutionary time.

Etymology

From chrono- + -gram, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + γράμμα (grámma, “writing”).

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