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temporal relation

temporal relation

7.6
A connection between events based on when they happen
  • noun
  • /ˈtɛmpərəl rɪˈleɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : relación temporal
  • The research focuses on the temporal relation between the events leading up to the accident.
  • capture the temporal relation

Examples

  • Understanding the temporal relations in historical events helps us see how one event influences another over time.

  • The study examines the temporal relation of social interactions in groups and their impact on behavior.

  • However, this may be due to the different interpretation of temporal relations.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The other worlds of the sequence are accessible from it through a temporal relation.

    Academic text (1992)
  • For the identification part, we suggest learning user lifestyles by capturing temporal relations between trajectories using embedding.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Temporal relations are unidirectional, so that future transactions are influenced by past transactions, while the reverse is impossible (2b).

    Academic text (2016)
  • As a graphic narrative, the book not only attracts the eye with beautiful art, but it thematizes the notion of "watching" as a way of highlighting both spatial and temporal relations.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Also, LDA 18 can be applied to identify human lifestyles from mobility patterns, but since it makes the assumptions of "bag-of-words" and the order of documents, in order to capture temporal relations in the mobility patterns, we needed in a previous study to relax these assumptions by extending LDA 1.

    Academic text (2018)
  • With data chronologically organized, the unrealistic temporal relations can be ignored in this approach (i.e., the future influencing the past), but they do not account for simultaneous observations.

    Academic text (2016)
  • For example, in a recent study, we extended latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to capture the temporal relations in mobility patterns that are reflected in a specific person's trajectories of movement in order to identify his lifestyle.

    Academic text (2018)

Synonyms

chronology
vstemporal relation
26 5.3

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

is broader, describing any timing-based relationship not only recorded order
chronological sequence
vstemporal relation
1 3.8

A list of events in the order they happened

includes other timing connections beyond a single ordered series
temporal order
vstemporal relation
5.9

How events follow each other in time

is broader, covering many timing-based connections beyond simple sequence
temporal arrangement
vstemporal relation
7.0

The order of events in time

is more general, not only about arranging but all timing relations

Surface Forms

Morphology

temporal + relation

The meaning 'a relationship determined by timing' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'temporal' (pertaining to time) with 'relation' (a connection). This compositional meaning follows normal English noun-modifier patterns and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Temporal relation comes from the simple idea that temporal means 'time' and relation means a 'link'. Imagine events as dots on a line connected by arrows showing which happens before or after, and that's why the phrase means a 'link' based on time.