temporal

IPA: tˈɛmpɝʌɫ

(chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
(zootomy) Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.
(anatomy) Ellipsis of temporal bone. [Either of two compound bones that collectively make up the sides and base of the skull.]

(relational) Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
(relational) 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.
(anatomy, relational) Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

Examples of "temporal" in Sentences

He is sovereign over all parts of what we call the temporal and the eternal.
Death is only a power over us because we are in temporal state of existence.
And the other benefit that we have, Alina, is that this is what I call a temporal event.
In what we call our temporal life God gets only a formal recognition, while Mammon is the referee.
It allows us to then place structures in temporal order, examine individual transitions and make relevant predictions.
He is head over all, in temporal and spiritual matters, and all business and lawsuits are settled by him, as the supreme authority.
˜temporal part™ (see section 2), and it raises a methodological issue: should ˜temporal part™ be defined in such a way that presentists can believe in temporal parts, or not?
Since the early 19th century, however, there has been an overall warming trend [25], although with clear evidence of both spatial variability and shorter-term temporal variability [26].
Similarly, the temporal continuum imputed on the basis of such no-longer-happening, presently-happening, and not-yet-happening temporal intervals is also merely what the mental label temporal continuum refers to on their basis, without there being any such findable referent “thing” as a “temporal continuum.”