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say it: TEM-pur-uhl
temporal is an adjective and noun meaning "not eternal". It is pronounced /ˈtɛmpɚəl/ — TEM-pur-uhl. It carries 6 recorded senses.
of or relating to or limited by time
“temporal processing”
“temporal dimensions”
“temporal and spacial boundaries”
“music is a temporal art”
of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)
“temporal bone”
characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
“worldly goods and advancement”
“temporal possessions of the church”
the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for temporal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.