CHRONOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronology mean? 

• CHRONOLOGY (noun)
  The noun CHRONOLOGY has 3 senses:

1. an arrangement of events in time

2. a record of events in the order of their occurrence

3. the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events

  Familiarity information: CHRONOLOGY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arrangement of events in time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("chronology" is a kind of...):

temporal relation (a relation involving time)

Derivation:

chronological (relating to or arranged according to temporal order)

chronologize (establish the order in time of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A record of events in the order of their occurrence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("chronology" is a kind of...):

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chronology"):

timeline (a sequence of related events arranged in chronological order and displayed along a line (usually drawn left to right or top to bottom))

Derivation:

chronological (relating to or arranged according to temporal order)

chronologize (establish the order in time of something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("chronology" is a kind of...):

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chronology"):

glottochronology (the determination of how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language)

Derivation:

chronological (relating to or arranged according to temporal order)

chronologize (establish the order in time of something)

 Context examples 

This astronomical answer has a built-in clock (computing planetary orbits backward in time), providing an accurate chronology for the geologic record.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)

While many of the remains studied have been repatriated, the data let scientists assemble a detailed chronology of the region's Neolithic Demographic Transition, in which stone tools reflect an agricultural transition from cutting meat to pounding grain.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)

One of the researchers, Gonzalo Aranda, explains that this re‑inspection has been focused on characterizing the population buried at that site from their anthropological and biochemical study, as well as from the analysis of the chronology and temporality of this cultural phenomenon through the radiocarbon dating of their funerary activities.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)