The state or quality of being temporal.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of temporize

plural of temporal

The act of temporizing. / (dentistry) The application of a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.

(transitive, often philosophy) To situate in time. / To secularize.

The act or process of temporalizing

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

(relational) Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical. / Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.

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

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