Timing vs Temporal - What's the difference?
timing | temporal |
(obsolete) An occurrence or event.
(uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
(uncountable) The time when something happens.
(uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
(countable) An instance of recording the time of something.
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Of or relating to time.
Of limited time; not perpetual.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18
Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to (spiritual).
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 166:
Lasting a short time only.
Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.
(chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
* Lowell
(skeleton) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.
As nouns the difference between timing and temporal
is that timing is (obsolete) an occurrence or event while temporal is (chiefly|in the plural) anything temporal or secular; a temporality or temporal can be (skeleton) either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.As a verb timing
is .As an adjective temporal is
of or relating to time or temporal can be of the temples of the head.timing
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Noun
Derived terms
* active timing * attack timing * back-timing * basic ignition timing * basic timing * color timing * comic timing * computer-controlled timing * continuous variable valve timing * dynamic ignition timing * ignition timing * market timing * sequential valve timing * signal timing * stress timing * syllable timing * targa timing * target timing * valve timing * variable cam timing * variable valve timingVerb
(head)temporal
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporalis, from .Adjective
(en adjective)- The things which are seen are temporal , but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.
- temporal''' power; '''temporal courts
Derived terms
* extratemporal * metatemporal * temporality * temporallyNoun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals .
