temporal

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Synonyms: atemporal, temporall, tempora, temporary, temporale, tempera, femoral, nemoral, tempura, tempra, tumoral

Antonyms: atemporal, temporall, tempora, temporary, temporale, tempera, femoral, nemoral, tempura, tempra, tumoral

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Adjective

1. Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
   • temporal power, temporal courts
   • The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled
2. Relating to time: Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal. Lasting for a short time only. Of or relating to time as distinguished from space. Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
3. Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal. Lasting for a short time only.
4. Lasting for a short time only.
5. Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
6. Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
7. Relating to or denoting time or tense.

Noun

1. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

Adjective

1. Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

Noun

1. Ellipsis of temporal bone.
2. Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

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