Of or pertaining to the temple or temples of the head: said chiefly of mammals and especially of man.

In entomology, postorbital; situated just behind or beneath the compound eyes.

noun. The bone of the temple, or os temporis. See temporal bone, above.

Of or pertaining to time; expressing relations of time: as, a temporal clause; a temporal adverb.

Of or pertaining to time in the sense of the present life or this world; secular: distinguished from spiritual.

Measured or limited by time, or by this life or this state of things; having limited existence; of short duration; enduring for a time: opposed to eternal.

In grammar, relating to a tense, or to the distinction of time expressed by tenses.

2 and Temporary, Temporal. Temporary, lasting but a short time: as, a temporary staging; temporal, belonging to time, hence belonging to this world, secular, or limited by time, not permanent, although perhaps not so fleeting as temporary things.

noun. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; a temporal matter or affair.

noun. In ichthyology: Same as hyomandibular.

noun. Same as pterotic.

noun. Same as sphenotic, 2.

adjective. Of or pertaining to the temple or temples

adjective. a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal portion above the ear, corresponding to the squamosal and zygoma of the lower vertebrates, and a thickened basal petrosal and mastoid portion, corresponding to the periotic and tympanic bones of the lower vertebrates.

adjective. Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.

adjective. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.

adjective. See under Lord, n.

adjective. See the Note under Augment, n.

noun. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.

adjective. Of or relating to time.

adjective. Of limited time; not perpetual.

adjective. Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to spiritual.

adjective. Lasting a short time only.

noun. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

adjective. of the temples of the head

noun. Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.

adjective. of or relating to or limited by time

adjective. not eternal

adjective. of this earth or world

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

adjective. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

adjective. of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)

"˜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?"