Diachronously
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In a diachronous manner; carried out or occurring with diachrony. not-comparable
"Using the literature of human and medical genetics, the results of a synchronous citation study of obsolescence over a 19-year period were compared with the results of a diachronous citation study. If the first two years of synchronous data are excluded, the rate of obsolescence measured synchronously is statistically equivalent to the rate of obsolescence measured diachronously."
Example
More examples"Using the literature of human and medical genetics, the results of a synchronous citation study of obsolescence over a 19-year period were compared with the results of a diachronous citation study. If the first two years of synchronous data are excluded, the rate of obsolescence measured synchronously is statistically equivalent to the rate of obsolescence measured diachronously."
Etymology
From diachronous + -ly.
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