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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: relating to or arranged according to temporal order; "chronological age"

Merriam Webster's

also chronologic adjective Date: 1614 of, relating to, or arranged in or according to the order of time <chronological tables of American history>; also reckoned in units of time <chronological age> • chronologically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of a number of events) arranged or regarded in the order of their occurrence. 2 of or relating to chronology. Derivatives: chronologically adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chronologic Chron`o*log"ic, Chronological Chron`o*log"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?.] Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables. --Raleigh. -- Chron`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If things are described or shown in chronological order, they are described or shown in the order in which they happened. I have arranged these stories in chronological order. ADJ: usu ADJ n • chronologically The exhibition is organised chronologically. ADV: ADV after v, ADV -ed/adj 2. If you refer to someone's chronological age, you are referring to the number of years they have lived, in contrast to their mental age or the stage they have reached in their physical or emotional development. (FORMAL) ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

annalistic, autobiographical, biographical, calendarial, calendric, chronogrammatic, chronographic, chronologic, chronoscopic, continuous, dated, diaristic, durational, durative, hagiographic, historic, historied, historiographic, horologic, intercalary, intercalated, lasting, legendary, martyrologic, metronomic, temporal, timekeeping, traditional