temporal

temporal

Relacionado con el tiempo, como cuándo ocurre algo o cuánto dura.

En inglés sencillo: Connected with time, including when things happen or how long they last.

• The events have a clear temporal order.
• We studied temporal changes in the data.
• The report examines the temporal relationship between rainfall and flooding.

Expresiones frecuentes: temporal order, temporal sequence, temporal relationship

temporal, secular

Relacionado con la vida cotidiana, el gobierno o los bienes, en vez de la religión.

En inglés sencillo: Connected with ordinary life, government, or possessions rather than religion or spiritual matters.

• The bishop also held temporal power.
• The king controlled temporal affairs.
• Church leaders disputed the limits of their temporal authority.

Sinónimos: secular, worldly

Antónimos: spiritual, religious

Expresiones frecuentes: temporal power, temporal authority, temporal affairs

temporal, transitorio

Que existe por un tiempo limitado y no para siempre.

En inglés sencillo: Existing for a limited time, rather than lasting forever.

• They contrasted temporal life with eternal life.
• All temporal things eventually pass away.
• The poem reflects on our temporal existence.

Sinónimos: transient, impermanent

Antónimos: eternal, permanent

Expresiones frecuentes: temporal existence, temporal life, temporal things

temporal, pasajero

Que dura poco tiempo.

En inglés sencillo: Lasting only a short time.

• The treatment brought only temporal relief.
• They enjoyed a temporal improvement in their living conditions.
• The writer warned against seeking temporal pleasures.

Sinónimos: temporary, brief, short-lived

Antónimos: lasting, permanent

Expresiones frecuentes: temporal relief, temporal effects, temporal pleasure

bien temporal

Algo de la vida terrenal, como una propiedad, y no de la vida espiritual.

En inglés sencillo: Something belonging to ordinary earthly life, such as property, rather than spiritual life.

• The bishop managed the church’s temporals.
• The dispute concerned temporals rather than spiritual teachings.
• Church temporals included land and income.

Sinónimos: temporality

Expresiones frecuentes: a temporal, each temporal

escama temporal

Pequeña placa dura al lado de la cabeza de un reptil, detrás del ojo.

En inglés sencillo: One of the small, hard plates on the side of a reptile’s head, behind its eye.

• The snake has one large temporal behind its eye.
• Count the temporals on each side of the head.
• This specimen has a damaged posterior temporal.

Expresiones frecuentes: anterior temporal, posterior temporal