Hypertext Webster Gateway: "metachronism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Metachronism \Me*tach"ro*nism\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, after the time,
happening afterward; ? beyond + ? time: cf. F.
m['e]tachronisme.]
An error committed in chronology by placing an event after
its real time.
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