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temporal order

temporal order

5.9
How events follow each other in time
  • noun
  • /ˈtɛmpərəl ˈɔrdər/
translation icon : orden temporal
  • 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.

Examples

  • 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.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The teacher emphasized that students must present their projects in temporal order to make their arguments clear.

  • To understand the sequence of the experiment's results, we must analyze the data in temporal order.

Synonyms

order
vstemporal order
1.0

The arrangement of things in a neat sequence

is specifically about how events line up by when they happened
sequence
vstemporal order
428 3.2

A set of things or events that come one after another in a specific order

is the time placement concept rather than a general grouping
timeline
vstemporal order
206 3.7

A line showing events in the order they happened

describes the same idea without using a visual chart
chronology
vstemporal order
26 5.3

The order of events as they happened or a record showing that order

focuses on the placement itself rather than keeping a record
ordering
vstemporal order
18 2.7

Arranging things in a particular sequence so they are easy to find

is limited to arranging items by when they took place
sequencing
vstemporal order
5 4.1

Putting things like steps or events in a particular order

views this as the final placement by when events happen
chronological sequence
vstemporal order
1 3.8

A list of events in the order they happened

is the same idea but expressed with other words
temporal arrangement
vstemporal order
7.0

The order of events in time

is the same idea but uses a different phrasing
chronological succession
vstemporal order
6.8

A list of events in the order they happened

is the same idea but uses alternative wording
seriation
vstemporal order
8.2

Putting things in a certain order by time, size, or other features

focuses only on placement by when events happen, not other features
sequentiality
vstemporal order
7.4

Things arranged or done one after another in a set order

is specifically about their placement by when they occur

Surface Forms

Morphology

temporal + order

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'.