temporal

/'tempərəl/

Thân thiện

The museum exhibit displayed artifacts from our temporal existence.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Relating to time: Pertaining to the sequence of events, the measurement of duration, or the concept of time itself.
   • Relating to worldly or secular matters: Concerned with the physical, material, and practical affairs of this life, as opposed to spiritual or eternal concerns.
   • Relating to the temples of the head: Of or connected to the region on the side of the skull behind the eye.

2. Noun:

   • A semantic role: In linguistics, the role of a noun phrase that indicates the time when the action or state expressed by the verb occurs.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Relating to time):
  • The temporal order of events is crucial to understanding the story.
  • Music is a temporal art form; it unfolds over time.
• Adjective (Relating to worldly matters):
  • The king was concerned with both spiritual and temporal affairs of the kingdom.
  • He focused on temporal gains rather than spiritual growth.
• Adjective (Relating to the temples):
  • The patient experienced pain in the temporal region of her head.
  • The temporal bone is part of the human skull.
• Noun (Semantic role):
  • In the sentence "She arrived on Tuesday," the phrase "on Tuesday" serves as a temporal.

Advanced Usage

• Temporal lobe: A major region of the brain located beneath the temples, involved in processing auditory information, memory, and language.
  • Damage to the temporal lobe can affect speech comprehension.
• Temporal resolution: A term used in science and technology to describe the precision of a measurement with respect to time.
  • High-speed cameras have excellent temporal resolution, capturing rapid events clearly.

Variants and Related Words

• Temporally (adverb): In a way that relates to time.
  • The two events are temporally linked.
• Temporality (noun): The state of existing within or having some relationship with time.
  • The philosopher wrote about the human experience of temporality.
• Extratemporal (adjective): Outside of or unrelated to time; or, located outside the temporal lobe of the brain.
• Temporal power: Secular or political authority, as opposed to spiritual authority.

Synonyms

• For : chronological, sequential, time-related.
• For : secular, earthly, mundane, material, profane.
• For : (no common synonym; anatomical term).

Antonyms

• For : spiritual, eternal, religious, sacred.
• For : atemporal, timeless, eternal.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. of this earth or world
   • temporal joys
   • our temporal existence
2. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
   • worldly goods and advancement
   • temporal possessions of the church
3. of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)
   • temporal bone
4. of or relating to or limited by time
   • temporal processing
   • temporal dimensions
   • temporal and spacial boundaries
   • music is a temporal art
5. not eternal
   • temporal matters of but fleeting moment- F.D.Roosevelt

Noun

1. the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

Từ đồng nghĩa

• worldly
• secular
• temporal role