Someone or something placed in an inappropriate period of time. Shakespeare’s placing of a clock in Julius Caesar is an anachronism, because clocks had not yet been invented in the period when the pla [..]

1640s, "an error in computing time or finding dates," from Latin anachronismus, from Greek anakhronismos, from anakhronizein "refer to wrong time," from ana- "against" (s [..]

out of the proper time.

An object or event that is seemingly out of place in time.

out of place or at the wrong time

(uh-nak-ruh-niz-uhm) From Middle Greek anachronismo, the word Anachronism refers to an event, person, object or custom that is chronologically out of place. It can also be an error in chronology, in w [..]

Placing an event, person, item, or verbal expression in the wrong historical period. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Shakespeare writes the following lines:

A chronological error. Analecta:

n. Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.

an element or artifact in a film that belongs to another time or place; often anachronistic elements are called film flubs Example: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), the first feature [..]

(n) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred(n) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age(n) an artifact that belongs to another time

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, especially. One by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation. Origin: Gr, fr. To refer to a wrong time, to confound times; + time: cf. F. Anachronisme. (01 Mar 1998)

Anachronisms happen when something in your book is out of sync with time. In other words, anachronisms are references that are out of place given the text's chronology, sequence of events, or his [..]

a historical error, placing a person, thing, or event either before its time or after it has become outdated.