SAT Word of the Day: anachronism
March 6, 2010 by Adam
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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.”
