Front | anachronism |
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Back | (n.) something out of place in time (e.g., an airplane in 1492); The editor recognized an anachronism in the manuscript where the character from the 1500s boarded an airplane. He realized that the film about cavemen contained an anachronism when he saw a jet cut across the horizon during a hunting scene. |
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