Diachronic

//daɪ.əˈkɹɑnɪk//

"Diachronic" in a Sentence (11 examples)

The two creations—the prochronic and the diachronic—here unite.

I read the research paper "Some diachronic changes in Yoruba grammar."

If you like Japanese history and linguistics, maybe read the dissertation "Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, Diachronic, and Typological Perspectives."

My experience with diachronic ("through time") telepathy makes me believe that time may not be linear. One theorizes that psychonic or tachyonic particles or waves are faster than light, so that they can travel back in time. (Men like to explain away things, even if they do not understand fully. Women think that they need not understand how something works.)

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

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.

I also take a more diachronic perspective and relate the growth of empire to changes in the regional market system as they occurred in the transition from the Early Aztec to the Late Aztec periods.

In short, it's usual for the syuzhet to appear more diachronic at the beginning and more synchronic at the end.

Rethinking the revolution issue is therefore the key to any novel interpretation, but it needs to be addressed in a more diachronic and synchronic fashion, comparing the Wende to earlier German upheavals and to the concurrent transformation of East Central Europe.

2012, Paolo Ramat, Sturtevant's paradox revisited, Thomas Stolz, Hitomi Otsuka, Aina Urdze, Johan van der Auwera (editors), Irregularity in Morphology (and Beyond), [page 61], Consequently, the perspective will be more diachronic than synchronic.

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However, his interpretation and conclusion receive their rationale almost as often from the subjective horizon as the more diachronic oriented commentaries do.

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