chronology
The science of determining the order in which events occurred.
Other meanings
An arrangement of events into chronological order; called a timeline when involving graphical elements.
“The film's chronology is not entirely obvious, but can be worked out by the clothes the characters are wearing in the scenes.”
Related words
- cementochronology
- chronologic
- chronologick
- chronologist
- chronologize
- lepidochronology
- palaeochronology
- paleochronology
- typochronology
- chronological
- chronologically
- chronologicity
Word history
From Ancient Greek "χρόνος" (time).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “chronology” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.