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temporal

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Adjective

  1. Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
  2. Relating to time: Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
  3. Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal: Lasting for a short time only.
  4. Relating to time: Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
  5. Relating to time: Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
  6. Relating to time: Relating to or denoting time or tense.
  7. Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

Noun

  1. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
  2. Ellipsis of temporal bone.
  3. 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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