WordNet
temporal order
n. arrangement of events in time [syn: temporal arrangement]
Usage examples of "temporal order".
To interpret temporal order as causal order was a pretty stupid thing for a chronosophist to do.
Yet where the order and linearity of sequential memory characterize the nineteenth-century novel, as the twentieth dawned, temporal order disintegrated.
Occurrences do not'take place in causal-temporal order related to inertial movements of this vessel.
Many physicists hope that string theory, as well as unifying relativity and quantum mechanics, will also supply a proof of Hawking's chronology protection conjecture - that the universe conspires to keep events happening in the same temporal order.