monochronicadj.

1840 B. H. Smart Walker's Crit. Pronouncing Dict. Monochronic, existing at one and the same geological period.

1883 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Monochronic,..in geol. applied to organic remains which seem to have been deposited at the same period.

1905 F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. 319 Monochronic, arising but once.

1967 Philosophy 42 140 Geography was at one time in danger of running into a dead monochronic alley by limiting itself to the visible present.

1988 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 17 54 Isolated teeth [of fossil hominids] in association with Gigantopithecus remains have been recovered from a karst cave locality... The dating and monochronic nature of this association are far from certain.

1959 E. T. Hall Silent Lang. ix. 178 American culture is characteristically monochronic... Our ideal is to center the attention first on one thing and then move on to something else.

1985 Social Psychol. Q. 48 342/2 Monochronic linear timing (or movement) of the Westerner is not fixed into the established patterns of traffic behavior in Egypt.

1993 High Life (Brit. Airways) Oct. 83/1 Latins are ‘Polychronic’, tending to do a number of things at the same time... Germanics are ‘monochronic’, and prefer to do things in the proper order, one at a time.

2000 Guardian 7 Apr. 12/1 We live and are perhaps trapped in a monochronic society.