An-ăch'ro-nism, n.

n. [Gr. ἀναχρονισμός, from ἀναχρονίζειν, to refer to a wrong time, to confound times, from ἀνά, up, against, and χρόνος, time; Fr. anachronisme.] An error in computing time; any error in chronology, by which events are misplaced in regard to each other.