temporal

In a sentence

Six example sentences with temporal, each labelled with its topic.

• Philosophers treat memory as a temporal puzzle: the past no longer exists, yet the mind still holds it clearly.

  Philosophy

• Ice cores give researchers a temporal record, each layer marking one season of snowfall over eight hundred thousand years.

  Science

• The puzzle imposes a temporal limit: every door reopens sixty seconds after you pass it, so routes must be planned.

  Gaming

• Rhythm gives music its temporal shape, dividing the flow of seconds into beats that the ear counts without effort.

  Music

• The database stores temporal data, so every price carries the exact minute at which it took effect.

  Technology

• Temporal distance changes how people choose, and a reward next year feels far smaller than the same sum today.

  Psychology

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains temporal. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• undermine
• preliminary
• welfare
• attribute
• activate
• environment
• removed
• inclined
• prohibit
• valid
• subjective
• outcome