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1. (n.) anachronism
an error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., is assigned a date or period other than the correct one.
2. anachronism
a thing or person that belongs to another, esp. an earlier, time.
Etymology: (1640–50; < L anachronismus < Gk anachronismós a wrong time reference =anachron(ízein) to make a wrong time reference (see ana -, chrono -, -ize ) +-ismos -ism)
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1. (noun) anachronism, mistiming, misdating
something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
2. (noun) anachronism
an artifact that belongs to another time
3. (noun) anachronism
a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age
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1. (noun) anachronism
a misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation
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