Transtemporal
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Transcending time; relating to time travel or to the influence or communication between one time and another. not-comparable
"At the same time that their protagonists "step off the edge" of known experience by participating in interplanetary, interdimensional, or transtemporal travel, such writers as Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and (to a lesser degree) Ursula K. Le Guin propose through their narratives' complexity that the reader abandon the safety of a "readerly" text's conventional discourse."
- 2 Across time; persistent. not-comparable
"Yet as Locke, for example, clearly recognized, the transtemporal numerical identity of particular vegetables and animals is nevertheless determined by a continuant, namely a form of 'organization' sufficient to maintain vegetable or animal life: that is, to maintain the intrinsic properties of particular vegetables or animals."
- 3 Across the temporal lobe of the brain. not-comparable
"The transtemporal window varies with each patient and the ability to penetrate the temporal bone varies with age, sex, and ethnicity."
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More examples"At the same time that their protagonists "step off the edge" of known experience by participating in interplanetary, interdimensional, or transtemporal travel, such writers as Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and (to a lesser degree) Ursula K. Le Guin propose through their narratives' complexity that the reader abandon the safety of a "readerly" text's conventional discourse."
Etymology
From trans- + temporal.
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