chronology

English

Etymology

From chrono- (“relating to time”) +‎ -logy (“study of, account of”), after (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin chronologia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹəˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/

Noun

chronology (countable and uncountable, plural chronologies)

1. (uncountable) the science of determining the order in which events occurred.
2. (countable) an arrangement of events into chronological order; called a timeline when involving graphical elements.

Coordinate terms

• horology

Derived terms

• astrochronology
• biochronology
• chronological
• chronologically
• chronologicity
• cosmochronology
• dendrochronology
• geochronology
• glottochronology
• gyrochronology
• magnetochronology
• mensiochronology
• nucleocosmochronology
• ptilochronology
• radiochronology
• sclerochronology
• skeletochronology
• synchronology
• tephrochronology
• thermochronology

 

Related terms

• chronicle
• chronograph

Translations

determining the order of events

• Albanian: kronologjia f
• Arabic: تاريخ (ar) m
• Armenian: ժամանակագրություն (hy) (žamanakagrutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: xronologiya
• Basque: kronologia
• Belarusian: храналогія f (xranalóhija)
• Bengali: কালনিরূপণবিদ্যা (kalnirupnobidda)
• Bulgarian: хронология (bg) f (hronologija)
• Catalan: cronologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 年表 (zh) (niánbiǎo)

• Czech: chronologie (cs) f
• Danish: kronologi c
• Dutch: chronologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kronologio
• Estonian: kronoloogia
• Finnish: kronologia (fi)
• French: chronologie (fr) f
• Galician: cronoloxía f
• Georgian: ქრონოლოგია (kronologia)
• German: Chronologie (de) f
• Greek: χρονολογία (el) f (chronología)
• Hebrew: כרונולוגיה (he) f (khronológya)
• Hindi: कालक्रम विज्ञान (kālakram vijñān)
• Hungarian: időrend (hu), kronológia (hu)
• Icelandic: tímatalsfræði f
• Ido: kronologio (io)
• Indonesian: kronologi (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: cronologia (it) f
• Japanese: 編年 (へんねん, hennen)
• Khmer: កាលប្បវត្តិវិទ្យា (kaal ppa’ voat vityie)
• Korean: 연대학 (yeondaehak)
• Latvian: hronoloģija f
• Lithuanian: chronologija f
• Macedonian: хронологија f (hronologija)
• Malay: kronologi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kronologi m

  Nynorsk: kronologi m

• Persian: گاهشناسی (gāhšenasī)
• Polish: chronologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: cronologia (pt) f
• Romanian: cronologie (ro) f
• Russian: хроноло́гия (ru) f (xronológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хронологија f (Bosnia, Serbia), кронологија f (Croatia)

  Roman: hronologija f (Bosnia, Serbia), kronologija (sh) f (Croatia)

• Slovak: chronológia (sk) f
• Slovene: kronologija (sl) f
• Spanish: cronología (es) f
• Swedish: kronologi (sv) c
• Thai: วิทยาการลำดับเวลา (wít-tai-ya-gaan-lam-dàp-wee-laa)
• Turkish: kronoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: хронологія f (xronolohija)
• Vietnamese: niên đại học

arrangement into chronological order

• Albanian: kronologjia f
• Arabic: تأريخ m
• Armenian: ժամանակագրություն (hy) (žamanakagrutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: xronologiya
• Basque: kronologia
• Belarusian: храналогія f (xranalóhija)
• Bulgarian: хронология (bg) f (hronologija)
• Catalan: cronologia (ca) f
• Czech: chronologie (cs) f
• Danish: kronologi c, kronologisk rækkefølge c
• Dutch: chronologie (nl) f, tijdsorde (nl) f, tijdrekenkunde f, tijdrekening (nl) f
• Estonian: kronoloogia
• Finnish: kronologia (fi)
• French: chronologie (fr) f
• Galician: cronoloxía f
• Georgian: ქრონოლოგია (kronologia)
• German: Chronologie (de) f, Zeitordnung f, Zeitmessung f, Zeitrechnung (de) f
• Greek: χρονολόγηση (el) f (chronológisi)
• Hebrew: כרונולוגיה (he) f (khronológya)
• Hungarian: időrend (hu), kronológia (hu)
• Icelandic: tímatal n, tímasetning f
• Indonesian: kronologi (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: cronologia (it) f
• Japanese: 年表 (ねんぴょう, nenpyō)
• Latvian: hronoloģija f
• Lithuanian: chronologija f
• Malay: kronologi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kronologi m

  Nynorsk: kronologi m

• Polish: chronologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: cronologia (pt) f
• Romanian: cronologie (ro) f
• Russian: хроноло́гия (ru) f (xronológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хронологија f (Bosnia, Serbia), кронологија f (Croatia)

  Roman: hronologija f (Bosnia, Serbia), kronologija (sh) f (Croatia)

• Slovak: chronológia (sk) f
• Slovene: kronologija (sl) f
• Spanish: cronología (es) f
• Swedish: kronologi (sv) c, kronologisk ordning (sv) c, tidsordning c
• Turkish: kronoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: хронологія f (xronolohija)
• Yiddish: כראָנאָלאָגיע f (khronologye)

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} chronologia
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}