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temporal

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/

The English word “temporal” has 9 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
  2. Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
  3. Lasting for a short time only.
  4. Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
  5. Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
  6. Relating to or denoting time or tense.
  7. Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

noun

  1. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
  2. Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

Etymology

From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) + -ālis.

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