nontemporal
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˈtɛmpərəl/
- Specialized
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atemporal
- In art, a nontemporal perspective allows viewers to appreciate a piece without considering its historical context.
- nontemporal measures
Examples
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A computerized block design task was developed which records temporal and nontemporal measures of performance.
Academic text (1992) -
The research focused on nontemporal aspects of memory that do not rely on chronological order.
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This generation is nontemporal and analogous to the procession of the Spirit.
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A nontemporal method of scoring a block-design task would be useful when testing persons who have handicaps affecting motor skills.
Academic text (1992) -
This suggests that the reliability of the nontemporal measures could be increased if the difficulty of the task was raised to the point at which subjects made more errors when building designs and failed to accurately reproduce some designs.
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An individual performing a task that requires attention-demanding stimuli expends more energy on nontemporal information and less energy on the cognitive timer.
Academic text (2017) -
Based on this evidence, we conclude that other temporal and nontemporal typologies may be useful both for constructing theories of homelessness and for policy-making.
Academic text (2011) -
According to psychology's cognitive-attentional theory, attention is divided into nontemporal information and a cognitive timer that processes and encodes temporal information.
Academic text (2017) -
In the interest of developing a method of scoring a block-design task that is unaffected by psychomotor speed, the present study investigates a nontemporal approach to measuring block design performance.
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Using nontemporal strategies can improve problem-solving skills in tasks that do not depend on time.
Synonyms
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7.1
Not showing its age and seeming to fit any time
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9.9
Not connected to time or to when things happen
Outside normal time and not changed by passing time
Not changed by time so it stays true in any era
Not changed by time and connecting past, present, and future
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nontemporal is made of non- meaning 'not' and temporal meaning 'time', the same root you see in temporary and tempo. So, nontemporal means not connected to time or not changing with time, like something that exists 'outside' the flow of time.