51Թ

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metachronous

[muh-tak-ruh-nuhs]

adjective

  1. Medicine/Medical.occurring at a different time than a similar event.

    metachronous tumors.

  2. Geology.composed of parts formed at different times.

    The older late-glacial shorelines are metachronous.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of metachronous1

First recorded in 1900–05 (for a different sense); meta- + Greek ó(Dz) “time” + -ous

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