the order in which a series of events happened; a list of these events in order按事件发生的年代排列的顺序；年表- Historians seem to have confused the chronology of these events.历史学家好像把这些事件发生的年代顺序搅混了。🔊🔊
- a chronology of Mozart’s life莫扎特生平年表
Extra Examples- That these things happened is certain, but the chronology is not.这些事情的发生是确定的，但时间顺序是不确定的。
- They were not particularly interested in chronology.他们对年表并不特别感兴趣。
- We need to establish the exact chronology of this process.我们需要确定该过程的确切时间。
Topics Historyc1Word Originlate 16th cent.: from modern Latin chronologia, from Greek khronos ‘time’ + -logia (see -ology).