temporal order
- noun
- /ˈtɛmpərəl ˈɔrdər/
- In historical novels, the author often maintains a temporal order that reflects the actual events of the time period.
The two stimuli kind of come together or very similar, you know, similar ties, whereas this if if there's a clear temporal order, right.
- The two stimuli kind of come together or very similar, you know, similar ties, whereas this if if there's a clear temporal order, right.
Examples
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The disruption of tasks requiring memory for spatial position and temporal order, seen with dorsal stream damage, is commensurate with M-cell input of such information to that region.
Academic text (1997) -
Although the model's arrows suggest causal pathways, temporal order cannot be established, and relationships can only be judged as correlational.
Academic text (2012) -
But the result was that temporal order was maintained and a paradox was avoided.
Fiction book (1991) -
A limitation of this practice is the potential risk for violating the specified temporal order of the model.
Academic text (2012) -
The liturgy of Jerusalem followed a temporal order of events with apparently little concern for the number of liturgical locations or the distances the participants would cover.
Academic text (2007) -
Hasher and Zacks (1979) argued that certain fundamental aspects of the flow of information (spatial position, temporal order, and frequency of occurrence) are processed automatically, without intention, and do not benefit from practice.
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The teacher emphasized that students must present their projects in temporal order to make their arguments clear.
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To understand the sequence of the experiment's results, we must analyze the data in temporal order.
Synonyms
The arrangement of things in a neat sequence
A set of things or events that come one after another in a specific order
A line showing events in the order they happened
The order of events as they happened or a record showing that order
Arranging things in a particular sequence so they are easy to find
Putting things like steps or events in a particular order
A list of events in the order they happened
The order of events in time
A list of events in the order they happened
Putting things in a certain order by time, size, or other features
Things arranged or done one after another in a set order
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'arrangement or sequence of events according to when they occur in time' is directly and compositionally derived from 'temporal' (relating to time) combined with 'order' (sequence). This is a straightforward modifier + noun construction that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Temporal order makes you think of a line of pictures put by date; temporal means about 'time' and order means how things are arranged. So the phrase means 'the order of events by time'.