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   chro·nol·o·gy

   /krəˈnäləjē/

   noun

   • 1. the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence: "the novel abandons the conventions of normal chronology"
   • ▪ a document displaying an arrangement of events in order of their occurrence.
   • ▪ the study of historical records to establish the dates of past events: "his book transformed prehistoric chronology by applying the results of carbon dating"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from modern Latin chronologia, from Greek khronos ‘time’ + -logia (see -logy).

   Derivatives

   • 1. chronologist noun

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