SAT Word of the Day: anachronism

March 6, 2010 by  
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anachronism (n.)

From Dictionary.com:

1. something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.
2. an error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., is assigned a date or period other than the correct one.

In a sentence:

“In this age of computing, the typewriter has become an anchronism from an earlier time.”

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