释义 |
Definition of non-temporal in English: non-temporaladjective 1Having no relation to time. Example sentencesExamples - This suggests that these features did not develop over long periods of time but would be better explained by nontemporal processes.
- A non-temporal series, then, has no direction in itself, though a person considering it may take the terms in one direction or in the other, according to his own convenience.
- For him a self, as it really is, is a timeless existent; and what appears to it and to others as its successive experiences are really timeless existents, ordered in a non-temporal series.
- One interesting and unexpected findings that these results yield is that nontemporal processes seem to develop noticeably before temporal processes.
- One picture, then, is of the universe beginning in a singular, non-temporal event roughly 13 - 14 billion years ago.
- Of course, we do also speak of non-temporal 'change', as when we describe the width of a river as 'changing' - 'getting bigger' - as it approaches the sea.
- One of the overarching, though now somewhat obvious, findings of this study is that musical cognitive processes, both temporal and nontemporal, do in fact exist.
- Non-temporal extrinsic data differ from stratigraphic data in that the linearity and irreversibility of the time element are absent.
- Another nontemporal experiment dealt with motivic abstraction.
2Relating to spiritual as opposed to worldly affairs. Example sentencesExamples - A dozen composers worked on the soundtrack, producing a whole range of songs, many of them about Radha and Krishna, that create an intended nontemporal quality.
- By too-often tending to conceive of God as an otherworldly, non-spatial, non-temporal being, he does not articulate well, how pantheistic conceptions of God and their intellectual relatives may also harbor the titanistic attitudes he seeks to criticize.
- I do believe that my moral choices have spiritual, non-temporal consequences.
Synonyms priestly, ministerial, clerical, ecclesiastic, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral |