temporal

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He is sovereign over all parts of what we call the temporal and the eternal.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or limited by time: a temporal dimension; temporal and spatial boundaries.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the material world; worldly: the temporal possessions of the Church.
  3. adjective Lasting only for a time; not eternal; passing: our temporal existence.

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  • ISS and CIRS then continued their long-term temporal monitoring of the F ring. —  SpaceRef - Calendar of Events
  • Maybe it's its own state, too full of cultural, temporal, and RMA diversity to be integrated smoothly into an existing category. —  Beth Loves Bollywood
  • But for it have any noticeable impact, snow burial between successive AWS checks would have to be decidedly non-random in nature, exhibiting a continental-scale coherence, and a long-term temporal trend to boot. —  RealClimate
  • The final science observation of S46 was another in the series of Imaging Science (ISS) pickets that repeatedly observe a particular latitude and longitude to detect short-term temporal variation. —  BBSNews ATOM 0.3 Newsreader Feed
  • Our patented architecture can detect event correlations comprised of temporal, attribute and spatial relationships, doing so with a latency measurable in sub-millisecond increments. —  SDA India - From the news desk
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin temporālis, from tempus, tempor-, time.
  2. Late Latin temporālis, from Latin tempora, pl. of tempus, temple.

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  1. from Middle English temporal, from Old French temporal, temporel, French temporel = Provencal Spanish Portuguese temporal = Italian temporale, from Latin temporalis, from tempus (tempor-), season, time, opportunity: see tense.
  2. = French temporal, from New Latin temporalis, from Latin tempora, the temples: see temple.
 

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/ˈtɛmpərəl/
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