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metachronous (adjective) (not comparable)
1. In medicine, not synchronous; multiple separate occurrences: The doctor told Mrs. Smith that the case of cancer she had had could be metachronous in that it could develop again at a different time.
2. In geology, referring to a formation that occurred at different times: Professor Jones talked about the metachronous shorelines being of a late-glacial period of geological history.
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