diachronic

Definition

Occurring over or changing with time.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "[…] 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."

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