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Temporary vs. Temporal

Temporary and Temporal Definitions

Temporary

Lasting, used, serving, or enjoyed for a limited time.

Temporal

Of, relating to, or limited by time
A temporal dimension.
Temporal and spatial boundaries.

Temporary

One that serves for a limited time
An office staffed by temporaries.

Temporal

Of or relating to the material world; worldly
The temporal possessions of the Church.

Temporary

Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
Sally was put in temporary charge of the department while they searched for a full-time replacement.

Temporal

Lasting only for a time; not eternal; passing
Our temporal existence.
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Temporary

Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

Temporal

Secular or lay; civil
Lords temporal and spiritual.

Temporary

One serving for a limited time; short-term employee.

Temporal

(Grammar) Expressing time
A temporal adverb.

Temporary

(programming) A short-term variable used to store an intermediate result.

Temporal

Of, relating to, or near the temples of the skull.
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Temporary

Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Temporary government of the city.

Temporal

(relational) Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
Temporal power, temporal courts

Temporary

Not permanent; not lasting;
Politics is an impermanent factor of life
Impermanent palm cottages
A temperary arrangement
Temporary housing

Temporal

(relational) Relating to time:

Temporary

Lacking continuity or regularity;
An irregular worker
Employed on a temporary basis

Temporal

Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
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Temporal

Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.

Temporal

Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.

Temporal

(grammar) Relating to or denoting time or tense.

Temporal

Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

Temporal

Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

Temporal

(skeleton) temporal bone

Temporal

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

Temporal

Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

Temporal

Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Is this an hour for temporal affairs?

Temporal

Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.

Temporal

Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; - used chiefly in the plural.
He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals.

Temporal

The semantic role of the noun phrase that designating the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

Temporal

Not eternal;
Temporal matters of but fleeting moment

Temporal

Of or relating to or limited by time;
Temporal processing
Temporal dimensions
Temporal and spacial boundaries
Music is a temporal art

Temporal

Of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit);
Temporal bone

Temporal

Of the material world;
Temporal possessions of the church

Temporal

Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters;
Lords temporal and spiritual

Temporal

Of this earth or world;
Temporal joys
Our temporal existence

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