CHRONOLOGICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronological mean? 

• CHRONOLOGICAL (adjective)
  The adjective CHRONOLOGICAL has 1 sense:

1. relating to or arranged according to temporal order

  Familiarity information: CHRONOLOGICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONOLOGICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or arranged according to temporal order

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

chronological age

Pertainym:

chronology (a record of events in the order of their occurrence)

Derivation:

chronology (the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events)

chronology (a record of events in the order of their occurrence)

chronology (an arrangement of events in time)

 Context examples 

A textual representation of a chronological age.

(Age Text, NCI Thesaurus)

Irrespective of chronological age, hair greying indicates biological age and could be a warning sign of increased cardiovascular risk.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Representation of data as a chronological sequence of events.

(Discrete Modeling, NCI Thesaurus)

A designation assigned to a particular period during a life cycle, generally defined by chronological parameters.

(Life Stage, NCI Thesaurus)

A chronological study in which participants are studied over time, with data being collected at multiple intervals.

(Longitudinal Study, NCI Thesaurus)

When they performed the same experiments on 10-day-old mutant flies and compared the results with the standard curve, they found that the flies were “older” than their chronological age.

(NIH scientists search for the clocks behind aging brain disorders, National Institutes of Health)

Mrs. Harker says that they are knitting together in chronological order every scrap of evidence they have.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The rate of this shift is associated more with a queen’s biological age than her chronological age.

(Species Shifts in the Honey Bee Microbiome Differ with Age and Hive Role, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Recent work suggests that epigenetic age might also be associated with health outcomes independent of chronological age.

(DNA changes predict longevity, NIH)

A chronological written account of a patient's examination and treatment that includes the patient's medical history and complaints, the physician's physical findings, the results of diagnostic tests and procedures, and medications and therapeutic procedures.

(Medical Record, NCI Thesaurus)