diachronic

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From dia- +‎ chronic.

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diachronic (not comparable)

  1. Occurring or changing along with time.
    • "...one salient value of archival magazine preservation is that individual issues register, however unintentionally, the small, incremental, diachronic movements within a culture." — Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2005
    • Diachronic linguistics is the study of language change; it is also called historical linguistics.

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