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TEMPORAL RELATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relation involving time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("temporal relation" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Attribute:
preceding (existing or coming before)
succeeding (coming after or following)
retrograde (of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma)
anterograde (of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "temporal relation"):
antecedent; forerunner (anything that precedes something similar in time)
chronology (an arrangement of events in time)
synchroneity; synchronicity; synchronisation; synchronism; synchronization; synchronizing; synchrony (the relation that exists when things occur at the same time)
asynchronism; asynchrony; desynchronisation; desynchronization; desynchronizing (the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times)
