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temporal

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "worldly, secular;" also "terrestrial, earthly; temporary, lasting only for a time," from Old French temporal "earthly," and directly from from Latin temporalis "of a time, but for a time, temporary," from tempus (genitive temporis ) "time, season, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 Of or relating to time. 2 Of limited time; not perpetual. 3 Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to (term: spiritual). 4 last a short time only. 5 Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical. n. (context chiefly ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Temporal can refer to time , or to material existence and secularity , or to the temple in anatomy. Below is a list of possible uses.

Usage examples of temporal.

We will know which gene we have to perturb with what, or which sequences of genes we have to perturb in what temporal order, to guide the differentiation of a cancer cell to nonmalignant behavior or to apoptosis, or to guide the regeneration of some tissue.

But the Christian sanctuary was open to every ambitious candidate, who aspired to its heavenly promises or temporal possessions.

Objection 1: It would seem that temporal nativity is not to be attributed to Christ.

When the first time machine arrived in the Kingdom of Frank, in the Land of Dam, its temporal skip had been slightly greater than the one Brewster himself had experienced, so as a result, it had not materialized in the same place.

In fact, you can see them: bumblebees or bristlecone pines, inhabiting temporal planes that barely intersect our own.

Through-and-through laceration from both mouth corners across masseter muscles, extending through temporal mandibula joints upward to both earlobes.

In the law of real property, its rules of tenure and descents, its entails, its fines and recoveries, their vouchers and double vouchers, in the procedure of the Courts, the method of bringing writs and arrests, the nature of actions, the rules of pleading, the law of escapes and of contempt of court, in the principles of evidence, both technical and philosophical, in the distinction between the temporal and spiritual tribunals, in the law of attainder and forfeiture, in the requisites of a valid marriage, in the presumption of legitimacy, in the learning of the law of prerogative, in the inalienable character of the Crown, this mastership appears with surprising authority.

Worse, he thought shiftable hodiechrons and temporal oscillation were entirely plausible, and when she told him she thought Max was having some kind of midlife crisis, Dr.

The inner projection of the temporal bone is known as the petrous process.

Time, as she shouldand that hunk of anti-matter will precess in the opposite temporal direction.

He had experienced the uncanny sensation of temporal disorientation when the precessing gyroscopes slowed, ceased to precess.

The thin, high whine of the Mannschenn Drive Unit deepened as the spinning, precessing gyroscopes slowed to a halt, and as they did so there came the nauseating dizziness of temporal disorientation.

Drive as the precessing gyroscopes slowed to a stop, experienced the inevitable sense of temporal disorientation.

He could imagine those shining rotors starting to turn, spinning faster and faster, spinning, precessing at right angles to all the dimensions of normal space, tumbling through the dark infinities, dragging the ship and all aboard her with them as the temporal precession field built up.

The patient recovered her general health, but with almost total loss of hair, only a few red, white, and black hairs remaining on the occipital and temporal regions.