chrono-, chron- +
(Greek: time)
achronism
Without time; the state of timelessness; deficiency of time.
algesichronometer
An instrument for recording the time required for the perception of a painful stimulus.
allochronic
1. Not contemporary; existing at different times; used in reference to populations of species living, growing, or reproducing during different seasons of the year.
2. Occurring in different segments of geologic time.
anachronic
Erroneous in date; out of the right chronological position or order; characterized by anachronism.
anachronism
1. An error in computing time, or fixing dates; the erroneous reference of an event, circumstance, or custom to a wrong date.
2. Anything done or existing out of date; hence, anything that was proper to a former age, but is, or, if it existed, would be, out of harmony with the present.
3. Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.
anachronistic
Of the nature of, or involving, anachronism.
anachronize
To put into a wrong chronological position; to transfer to a different time.
anachronous
Involving anachronism; out of proper chronological position, out of date; not in its proper or historical time.
anachronously
Without regard to correct chronology.
astrochronological
Pertaining to the chronology and periods of the heavenly bodies.
asynchronism, ansynchronous
Not coinciding in time; not corresponding in time.
catachronobiology
The study of the deleterious effects of time on a living system.
chron
The shortest interval into which geologic time is subdivided.
To keep better time is not to know time better. Time’s mystery is not lessened by ever better clocks—it is brought only more clearly into focus.
—James Jesperson, Physicist,
National Institute for Standards and Technology
chronal
Of or relating to time.
chronaxie, chronaxia, chronaxis, chronaxy
1. A measurement of excitability of nervous or muscular tissue; the shortest duration of an effective electrical stimulus having a strength equal to twice the minimum strength required for excitation.
2. The minimum duration of electric current required to induce muscular contraction at a voltage of two times the threshold voltage.
3. The time interval needed to stimulate a nerve or muscle fiber electrically.
Related "time" units:
aevum, evum;
archaeo-, archeo-;
Calendars;
horo-;
pre-;
Quotes: Time;
tempo-.