Temporal
adjective
Related to time or the passing of time.
Memory is related to the temporal sequence of events.
Often appears as...
- temporal sequence
- temporal order
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Formal
adjective
Of or relating to the worldly or secular.
The bishop has temporal authority over the church.
Often appears as...
- temporal authority
- temporal power
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Of or relating to the sides of the head or skull.
He suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy.
Often appears as...
- temporal lobe
- temporal bone
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Technical
adjective
Related to time or the passing of time.
Memory is related to the temporal sequence of events.
Often appears as...
- temporal sequence
- temporal order
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Of or relating to the worldly or secular.
The bishop has temporal authority over the church.
Often appears as...
- temporal authority
- temporal power
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Of or relating to the sides of the head or skull.
He suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy.
Often appears as...
- temporal lobe
- temporal bone
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Time Focus
Use 'temporal' to emphasize aspects or effects of time in various contexts.
Artists use temporal elements to show change in their work.
Pro Tip 2/3Duration Highlight
'Temporal' often suggests a concern with the length and passing of time.
She studies the temporal span of the Renaissance period.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Permanence
'Temporal' implies that something isn't lasting and can change with time.
Our temporal existence contrasts with the idea of eternal life.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Focus
Use 'temporal' to emphasize aspects or effects of time in various contexts.
Artists use temporal elements to show change in their work.
Pro Tip 2/3Duration Highlight
'Temporal' often suggests a concern with the length and passing of time.
She studies the temporal span of the Renaissance period.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Permanence
'Temporal' implies that something isn't lasting and can change with time.
Our temporal existence contrasts with the idea of eternal life.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Focus
Use 'temporal' to emphasize aspects or effects of time in various contexts.
Artists use temporal elements to show change in their work.
Pro Tip 2/3Duration Highlight
'Temporal' often suggests a concern with the length and passing of time.
She studies the temporal span of the Renaissance period.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-Permanence
'Temporal' implies that something isn't lasting and can change with time.
Our temporal existence contrasts with the idea of eternal life.
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What's so funny about...
It comes completely conscious. It's got state-of-the-art lobes. We've got the occipital lobe so we can actually see the world. We got the temporal lobe so we can actually hear the world. Here we've got a little bit of long-term memory, so, you know that night you want to forget, when you got really drunk? Bye-bye! Gone.
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How optical illusions...
that have specifically evolved to help us recognize faces. Like the fusiform face area and others in the occipital and temporal lobes. It makes sense, too, we're very social animals with highly complex ways of interacting with each other. When we see faces, we have to recognize they are faces
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Should you trust your...
based on people's behaviors, activity in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the superior temporal sulcus correlates with perceptions of how frequently those behaviors occur in daily life. In other words, the brain seems to be tracking low-level, statistical properties of behavior
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Why we love repetition...
but the guitarist pitch bending might be of critical expressive importance. The speech to song illusion captures how simply repeating a sentence a number of times shifts listeners attention to the pitch and temporal aspects of the sound, so that the repeated spoken language
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Wendy Suzuki: The...
critical for things like decision-making, focus, attention and your personality. The second key area is located in the temporal lobe, shown right here. You have two temporal lobes in your brain, the right and the left, and deep in the temporal lobe is a key structure
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Can you solve the time...
But the color of each individual connection manifests at random, and there’s no way to choose or change its color. And there’s one more each individual nodule creates a temporal instability that raises the chances the portal might collapse as you go through it.
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Photosynth 2: Exploring...
previous talks in this session and what it really is about is enabling the computer to understand images as spatial temporal capture events as renditions of the real world at a particular place and moment in time and once the computer
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Safari Live - Day 11 PIPE...
process which actually attaches muscles that help to open the jaw and this attachment here is where it happens so that's the dogs now that's not independent from this temporal ball a or the auditory bullae whereas in the cats
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What hallucination...
or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past.
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The Most Powerful Bite PIPE...
the main muscle which closes the jaw is known as the temporal muscle it travels from the top of the skull right down to the jaws themselves
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What's so funny about...
It comes completely conscious. It's got state-of-the-art lobes. We've got the occipital lobe so we can actually see the world. We got the temporal lobe so we can actually hear the world. Here we've got a little bit of long-term memory, so, you know that night you want to forget, when you got really drunk? Bye-bye! Gone.
Video examples
How optical illusions...
that have specifically evolved to help us recognize faces. Like the fusiform face area and others in the occipital and temporal lobes. It makes sense, too, we're very social animals with highly complex ways of interacting with each other. When we see faces, we have to recognize they are faces
Video examples
Should you trust your...
based on people's behaviors, activity in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the superior temporal sulcus correlates with perceptions of how frequently those behaviors occur in daily life. In other words, the brain seems to be tracking low-level, statistical properties of behavior
Video examples
Why we love repetition...
but the guitarist pitch bending might be of critical expressive importance. The speech to song illusion captures how simply repeating a sentence a number of times shifts listeners attention to the pitch and temporal aspects of the sound, so that the repeated spoken language
Video examples
Wendy Suzuki: The...
critical for things like decision-making, focus, attention and your personality. The second key area is located in the temporal lobe, shown right here. You have two temporal lobes in your brain, the right and the left, and deep in the temporal lobe is a key structure
Video examples
Can you solve the time...
But the color of each individual connection manifests at random, and there’s no way to choose or change its color. And there’s one more each individual nodule creates a temporal instability that raises the chances the portal might collapse as you go through it.
Video examples
Photosynth 2: Exploring...
previous talks in this session and what it really is about is enabling the computer to understand images as spatial temporal capture events as renditions of the real world at a particular place and moment in time and once the computer
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 11 PIPE...
process which actually attaches muscles that help to open the jaw and this attachment here is where it happens so that's the dogs now that's not independent from this temporal ball a or the auditory bullae whereas in the cats
Video examples
What hallucination...
or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past.
Video examples
The Most Powerful Bite PIPE...
the main muscle which closes the jaw is known as the temporal muscle it travels from the top of the skull right down to the jaws themselves
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Pete Docter
American Director
I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.
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Josiah Royce
American Philosopher
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.
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Saint Francis de Sales
Swiss Clergyman
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian Philosopher
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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Simone Weil
French Philosopher
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
German Businessman
Throughout our lives, God's grace bestows temporal blessings and spiritual gifts that magnify our abilities and enrich our lives. His grace refines us. His grace helps us become our best selves.
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Robert A. Schuller
American Clergyman
Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.
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Polly Toynbee
English Journalist
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
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Benny Hinn
Israeli Clergyman
Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.
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Amy Sherald
American Artist
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
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Pete Docter
American Director
I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal.
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Josiah Royce
American Philosopher
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.
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Saint Francis de Sales
Swiss Clergyman
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian Philosopher
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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Simone Weil
French Philosopher
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
German Businessman
Throughout our lives, God's grace bestows temporal blessings and spiritual gifts that magnify our abilities and enrich our lives. His grace refines us. His grace helps us become our best selves.
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Robert A. Schuller
American Clergyman
Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.
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Polly Toynbee
English Journalist
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
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Benny Hinn
Israeli Clergyman
Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.
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Amy Sherald
American Artist
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
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