temporal🔊

Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical. +

Relating to time.

Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.

(euphemistic) 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.

(grammar) Relating to or denoting time or tense.

Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

(anatomy) Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

(anatomy) Temporal bone.

(zootomy) Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.