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di•a•chron•ic
Pronunciation: (dī"u-kron'ik), [key]
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adj. Ling.
of or pertaining to the changes in a linguistic system between successive points in time; historical:
diachronic analysis. Cf.
synchronic.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.