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Definition of anachronism:

(n) : a chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance etc; a person or thing which seems to belong to a different time
"1956: His movements, his clothes, everything about him, seemed slightly out of place in this assembly. He spoiled the pattern; like Alvin, he was an anachronism. -- Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 32"
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Definition of anachronism:

(n) : a chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance etc; a person or thing which seems to belong to a different time
"1956: His movements, his clothes, everything about him, seemed slightly out of place in this assembly. He spoiled the pattern; like Alvin, he was an anachronism. -- Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 32"

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