Calling all Greek/Latin experts!

[compilerbitch]

Hi all,

I have an urgent need for one or more new words for a mathematics paper I'm currently writing. We are trying to create a taxonomy of existing approaches to hardware analysis, but no actual accepted terminology currently exists. Tradition has it that new terms should probably derive from Greek and/or Latin, hence the plea for help from people-who-know-about-such-stuff.

Anyway, I'll describe the things we're trying to describe, so suggestions of good sounding relevant technical terms would be much appreciated!

Timeless, time free, not requiring consideration of time, time independent. Our best guess so far is achronous. Technically, an achronous model would represent the behaviour of a circuit without taking into account the absolute time(s) at which signals change state.

Non-achronous, something denoting the opposite of the previous case, technically models of circuit behaviour that do take into account absolute time.

'Absolute time', here I'm looking for something that would fit into the same bit of a sentence as 'achronous', but that means 'depending on absolute time'.

'Stretchy time'

'Rigid time'

'Independent time'

'Relational/related time'


'Unknown time' (variants including 'unknown within a range' and 'completely unknown' would be handy)

'Sliced-up time' where slices may be arbitrarily thick.

'Sliced-up time' where slices are of equal, regular duration (think 'clock ticking').

'Ordered time' (here, I mean order in the sense of partial/total order, e.g. 1,2,3,4... rather than something political)

It would be a good idea to avoid existing terms, e.g. synchronous, asynchronous, because I'd rather have distinct, new terms that won't have existing overloaded meaning though they should still be intuitively meaningful. Also, nothing too long -- we really need single words rather than phrases.

The world of science thanks you in advance!

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Edit: It's looking like achronal is in pole position at the moment. It's already in use in my current draft, which you can see here if you have the stomach for a heavily mathematical 31 page bludgeon-of-a-journal-paper.

Comments

[cerberuspuppy.livejournal.com]

Antemporal;
Contemporal;
Temporal;
Variotemporal;
Presbytemporal;
Paratemporaneous.......


Urgh. Brainfry. As with the guy who named the television, you're mixing your classical languages!

You mean extemporal (which is almost already a word) [from Latin] or achronous [from Greek]. I'll let you off with contemporal and variotemporal (and temporal, obviously). Presbytemporal and paratemporal have the same problem as antemporal, although they do amuse me somewhat. Try presbychronous (if that's what you mean - "old time"-ish). Anatemporal should be anachronous, although that's already a word meaning something else...

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

I like extemporal.