Definitions
1.AdjectiveOf 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.AdjectiveRelating to time:
Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
Lasting for a short time only.
Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
3.AdjectiveOf limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
Lasting for a short time only.
4.AdjectiveLasting for a short time only.
5.AdjectiveOf or relating to time as distinguished from space.
6.AdjectiveOf or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
7.AdjectiveRelating to or denoting time or tense.
8.NounAnything temporal or secular; a temporality.
9.AdjectiveOf or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
10.NounEllipsis of temporal bone.
11.NounAny of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.