Definition of "temporal" in английский

adjective

1. (relational) Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.

   • temporal power, temporal courts
   • The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled

2. (relational) Relating to time:

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

adjective

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

noun

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of temporal bone.

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