• Chronophagous

    Pronunciation

    • RP IPA: en, /kɹɒ.ˈnÉ’.fÉ™.É¡É™s/
    • Hyphenation: en + chro + no + phag + ous

    Origin

    - + chrono + -.

    Full definition of chronophagous

    Adjective

    chronophagous

    1. (rare) Time-consuming.
      • 1908, Harvey Washington Wiley, Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis; a Manual for the Study of Soils, Fertilizers, and Agricultural Products; for the Use of Analysists, Teachers, and Students of Agricultural Chemistry, The method, however, cannot be considered strictly scientific and is much more tedious and chronophagous than the direct determination.
      • 1978, Sorin M. RÇŽdulescu, As a chronophagous activity as it is, reducing the population's leisure budget, transports also imply a great expenditure of physical and nervous energy to the detriment of manpower's potentiality ...
      • 1994, Aziz Al-Azmeh, Religion and Practical Reason: New Essays in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions Chapter Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition, Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition
      • 1996, Aziz Al-Azmeh, Cross-cultural Conversation (Initiation) Chapter Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant, We have historical masses construed as individual states or permanent conditions of phylogeny. They are conceived as supra-historical masses which speak in the tones of a chronophagous discourse. Thus societies and nations rise and fall, but do not change in any serious sense, and the wheel of fortune is animated, quite literally, by internal, intransitive, self-subsistent pneumatic impulses (w
      • 27 October 2012, Stanislas Kraland, The French already lacked sleep in 1962, Because modern life is chronophagous and resting necessary, we have invented hypnotherapy—apprenticeship while sleeping.
      • 2014, Daphne Karfunkel-Doron, Genomic Medicine: Principles and Practice Chapter Genomic Applications in Audiological Medicine, Though highly accurate, this method is chronophagous and expensive, making the large numbers of genes required for sequencing a challenge. This was really the start of the demand for rapid and low-cost sequencing technologies, which were eventually met in 2005 by the development of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) (also known as next-generation sequencing, NGS).

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