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temporally

temporally

3 7.2
In a way that relates to time or the order of events
  • adverb
  • /ˈtɛmpərəli/
translation icon : temporalmente
  • We can claim that creation is temporally finite without necessarily claiming that creation had a beginning.
  • spatially and temporally
  • geographically and temporally
  • temporally ordered

So this, this is an example of a non temporally orientable space-time.

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Examples

  • Each trial comprised three temporally distinct intervals that were separated by 500 ms of silence.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Good Dog Carl includes many details, and the story structure is sequential and temporally driven.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I want to first of all come up with ways for people to temporally self report when they feel that they are being especially creative.

  • So most of us want to get coffee with this person when we're thinking more temporally, more locally about what's today.

  • Now, our instrumentation and cabin data systems are temporally out of service.

  • Thus, these two outbreaks appear to be temporally, geographically, and genetically separate.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The CST passages were then manipulated temporally to create two faster and two slower conditions.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The segregation of Catholics and Protestants varies spatially and temporally in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Most prerevolutionary actualities constituted brief, temporally and spatially delimited views of particular places, people, or events.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The events in the documentary were presented temporally to highlight their chronological progression.

Synonyms

chronologically
vstemporally
9 4.4

In the order that events happen

is broader, relating to time or the order of events
sequentially
vstemporally
9 4.5

Things happen one after the other in a fixed order

is about time relation rather than only fixed step order
successively
vstemporally
3 4.4

One thing happens after another

is more general, relating to time or event ordering not just succession

Surface Forms

temporally positive

Morphology

temporally = temporal (transparent) = temporal + ly

The adverb is a straightforward formation from the adjective 'temporal' with the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', yielding 'in a temporal manner'.

Etymology

The word temporally comes from the Latin word tempus, which means 'time'. It is the same root as common words like temporary and tempo, so temporally means 'in relation to time' or 'about the order of events'.