chro|nol|o|gy

chro|nol|o|gy
chro|nol|o|gy «kruh NOL uh jee», noun, plural -gies.
1. the science of measuring time and of determining the proper order and dates of events.
2. a table or list that gives the exact dates of events arranged in the order in which they happened.
3. a system of arranging time in periods and assigning dates to events; arrangement of the exact dates of events in the order in which they happened: »

[He] was then able by a process of interpolation to fit some of the plays of uncertain date in their most likely position in the sequence—and so produce new evidence of their chronology (C. B. Williams).

╂[< New Latin chronologia < Greek chró nos time + -logíā -logy]

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