TEMPORAL RELATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A relation involving time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("temporal relation" is a kind of...):

relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)

Attribute:

preceding (existing or coming before)

succeeding (coming after or following)

retrograde (of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma)

anterograde (of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "temporal relation"):

antecedent; forerunner (anything that precedes something similar in time)

chronology (an arrangement of events in time)

asynchronism; asynchrony; desynchronisation; desynchronization; desynchronizing (the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times)