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temporal
  تامنی؛ ۱) زمانی؛ ۲) این-جهانی؛ ۳) تامنی؛ ۴) گیانی؛ ۵) زمانی   
tâmeni; 1) zamâni; 2) in-jahâni; 3) tâmeni; 4) giyâni; 5) zamâni

Fr.: temporaire   

1) Of or pertaining to time.
2) Pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly.
3) Enduring for a time only; → temporary; transitory; → transient (opposed to eternal).
4) Secular, lay, or civil, as opposed to ecclesiastical.
5) Grammar: Of, pertaining to, or expressing time.

M.E., from O.Fr., from L. temporalis "of a time, but for a time, temporary," from tempus (genitive temporis) "time, season, proper time or season," of unknown origin.

Tâmeni, from tâmen, → time.

temporal coherence
  همدوسی ِ زمانی   
hamdusi-ye zamâni

Fr.: cohérence temporelle   

A measure of the correlation between the phases of an → electromagnetic wave at different points along the direction of propagation. Temporal coherence indicates to what extent a source is monochromatic. Imagine a source emitting waves with wavelength λ ± Δλ. Waves with wavelength λ and λ + Δλ, which at some point in space constructively interfere, will no longer constructively interfere after some path length lc = λ2/(2πΔλ); lc is called the → coherence length.

temporal; → coherence.

temporal hour
  ساعت ِ فصلی   
sâ'at-e fasli

Fr.: heure temporelle   

A unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the day from sunrise to sunset into 12 equal numbers of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.

M.E., from O.Fr. temporal, from L. temporalis "of time, temporary," from tempus (genitive temporis) "time, season, proper time or season," → time; → hour.

Sâ'athour; fasli, of or pertaining to faslseason.

temporal resolution
  واگشود ِ زمانی   
vâgošud-e zamâni

Fr.: résolution temporelle   

The measure of the ability of an observing system to clearly separate events in time. In other words, the shortest time interval that can be determined between two different events.

temporal hour; → resolution.

temporality
  تامنیگی   
tâmenigi

Fr.: temporalité   

Temporal character or nature.

temporal; → -ity.