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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