See metachronous on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for metachronous meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "meta", "3": "chrono", "4": "us" }, "expansion": "meta- + chrono + -us", "name": "confix" } ], "etymology_text": "From meta- + chrono + -us.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "metachronous (not comparable)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Physiology", "orig": "en:Physiology", "parents": [ "Biology", "Medicine", "Sciences", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "48 52", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms prefixed with meta-", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "Occurring at a different time to that of a specified event" ], "id": "en-metachronous-en-adj-1~E~0ccr", "links": [ [ "physiology", "physiology" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(physiology) Occurring at a different time to that of a specified event" ], "tags": [ "not-comparable" ], "topics": [ "medicine", "physiology", "sciences" ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Geology", "orig": "en:Geology", "parents": [ "Earth sciences", "Sciences", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "31 69", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "48 52", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms prefixed with meta-", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "29 71", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -us", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "Having parts formed at different times" ], "id": "en-metachronous-en-adj-8tWH0beG", "links": [ [ "geology", "geology" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(geology) Having parts formed at different times" ], "tags": [ "not-comparable" ], "topics": [ "geography", "geology", "natural-sciences" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0", "word": "asynchronous" } ], "word": "metachronous" }
{ "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms prefixed with meta-", "English terms suffixed with -us", "English uncomparable adjectives" ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "meta", "3": "chrono", "4": "us" }, "expansion": "meta- + chrono + -us", "name": "confix" } ], "etymology_text": "From meta- + chrono + -us.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "metachronous (not comparable)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "en:Physiology" ], "glosses": [ "Occurring at a different time to that of a specified event" ], "links": [ [ "physiology", "physiology" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(physiology) Occurring at a different time to that of a specified event" ], "tags": [ "not-comparable" ], "topics": [ "medicine", "physiology", "sciences" ] }, { "categories": [ "en:Geology" ], "glosses": [ "Having parts formed at different times" ], "links": [ [ "geology", "geology" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(geology) Having parts formed at different times" ], "tags": [ "not-comparable" ], "topics": [ "geography", "geology", "natural-sciences" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "asynchronous" } ], "word": "metachronous" }
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.