DIACHRONOUS

Etymology

Adjective

diachronous (comparative more diachronous, superlative most diachronous)

(geology) Varying in age from place to place

Alternative form of diachronic

Results using synchronous and diachronous studies are often different and do not take into account the growth of literatures, which could affect citation counts received by a given paper.

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28 November 2024

SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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