Meaning of chronophagous | Babel Free

Definitions

Time-consuming.

rare

Examples

“The method, however, cannot be considered strictly scientific and is much more tedious and chronophagous than the direct⟳ determination.”

“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 […]”

The Social Future: Journal of Sociology and Politicology

“Chronophagous Discourse: A Study⟳ of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition”

“[W]e 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 ([Johann Gottfried] Herder's Kräfte) and which together can be described by the term Volksgeist.”

“Because modern life is chronophagous and resting necessary, we have⟳ invented hypnotherapy—apprenticeship while sleeping.”

“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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