temporal vs transitive

temporal

noun
  • Anything temporal or secular; a temporality. 

  • Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales. 

adj
  • Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal. 

  • Of or relating to time as distinguished from space. 

  • Relating to or denoting time or tense. 

  • Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits. 

  • Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical. 

  • Lasting for a short time only. 

  • Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time. 

transitive

noun
  • A transitive verb. 

adj
  • Affected by transference of signification. 

  • Taking a direct object or objects. 

  • Making a transit or passage. 

  • Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c. 

  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second. 

  • Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other. 

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