temporal
TEM-per-uladjMeaning having to do with time
Memory hook TEMPOR-al: a question of WHEN. Detective Ada doesn’t ask where the thief went; she asks when. Clock, calendar, timetable: her questions are temporal.
The story jumps back and forth, so readers must follow its temporal clues: dates, seasons and ages.
In context The detective studied the temporal details of the case: what time the lights went out, how long the dog barked and when the car finally drove off.
Similar time-related, time-based
Opposite spatial
From Latin temporalis, from tempus, “time.”