Associations to the word «Chronology»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

CHRONOLOGY, noun. An arrangement of events in time.
CHRONOLOGY, noun. A record of events in the order of their occurrence.
CHRONOLOGY, noun. The determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats