timeline

• time line, time-line

From time +‎ line.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪmˌlaɪn/

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timeline (plural timelines)

1. A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future); a chronology.
   • 2015, “Energy”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake:

     I got bitches askin' me about the code for the Wi-Fi / So they can talk about they timeline / And show me pictures of they friends

   • 2023 February 8, Andrew Mourant, “A serious shuttle service with options to Taunton and beyond”, in RAIL, number 976, page 31:

     But, as things stand, there's no timeline in place for reopening.

2. A schedule of activities; a timetable.
3. (science fiction) An individual universe or reality, especially a parallel/alternate one in which events differ from actual history, or differ from the established canon of a fictional world.

   Synonyms: timestream, time track

   • 1997 May 5, Children of Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), season 5, number 22 (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:

     SISKO: I don't quite know how to say this... but now that we know about the accident that sent the ship back in time, we should be able to avoid it.
     WORF: Well if we do that, your timeline will collapse and everything here will cease to exist.

• (graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events): chronology
• (schedule of activities): schedule, timetable

timeline (third-person singular simple present timelines, present participle timelining, simple past and past participle timelined)

1. To analyse a sequence of events or activities.
2. To display such a sequence graphically.

• ilmenite, line item, melinite, menilite

timeline f (plural timelines)

1. timeline