单词 | seriation |
释义 | seriationn. rare before late 19th cent. 1. Serial succession or order; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] ordera1382 successionc1405 suing?a1425 succeedingc1460 success1546 consequency1548 ensuing1561 consequence1597 sequence1597 pursuit1605 subsequence1610 descent1613 successorship1627 consecution1651 seriation1658 successivenessa1676 successivity1866 diadoche1884 1658 J. Robinson Endoxa iv. 30 Where there is no fear of enormity, there may be a secure seriation of supremacy. 1861 Chem. News 19 Oct. 204/1 The primitive series..expresses a seriation in a cube. 1912 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 13 361 I feel confident that the seriation of the stages is correctly determined—indeed the only possible doubt concerns the earliest pre-synaptic stages. 1994 Lingua 92 335 Even when the events and verb utterances are relatively close in time, their seriation differs. 2. Formation of, or arrangement into, a series; spec. the action of arranging items in a sequence according to prescribed criteria; the ordering resulting from such an arrangement. Also: an instance of this.Used esp. in the study of physical features, archaeological artefacts, etc., in which observed differences are considered likely to reflect chronological development. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > action or fact of forming a series seriousnessc1487 seriality1855 serialization1856 seriation1859 serialism1897 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > action or fact of forming a series > according to prescribed criteria seriation1859 1859 Amer. Homœopathic Rev. Apr. 311 Desmarres has, in continuing the seriation by tissues, distinguished the blepharites proper, from the conjunctivites. 1887 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 16 14 Important information can be derived from analyses of its [sc. the cephalic index's] variations in each particular race as is done by the system of seriation. 1909 Nature 7 Oct. 435/1 The author claims that he established for the first time a seriation of human ears, and that each ear type is associated with a physical variety of man. 1940 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 44 543/1 The large quantities of the various classes of artifacts lend themselves to typologic seriation and facilitate comparative studies. 1962 G. Kubler Art & Archit. Anc. Amer. i. 16 The history of art is a historical discipline because the seriation of works of art permits one to transcend the knowledge of even the artists themselves about their own work. 2007 S. L. Eckert in P. Schaafsma New Perspectives Pottery Mound Pueblo iv. 58/1 Using a combination of seriation and mean ceramic dating, I..determined that these 17 levels have a date range of approximately a.d. 1350–1450. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1658 |
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