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Diachronic

//daɪ.əˈkɹɑnɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Occurring over or changing with time.

    "[…] one salient value of archival magazine preservation is that individual issues register, however unintentionally, the small, incremental, diachronic movements within a culture."

  2. 2
    Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time.

    "It is plain that natural science has developed more diachronic concern, more of the longer historical approach in its interests and repertory, in the last two centuries than in the two millennia before."

Adjective
  1. 1
    used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time wordnet

Etymology

By surface analysis, dia- + chron- + -ic; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.

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