Meanings
- not comparableTranscending time; relating to time travel or to the influence or communication between one time and another.
“So, what, time travel?” “You accepted translocation, but transtemporal is too far?”
2014, Ann Aguirre, Mortal Danger, →ISBN3 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.
1984, Natalie Myra Rosinsky, Feminist futures--contemporary women's speculative fiction, page 29However, the Internet has also reversed the way we communicate in terms of the transspatial and transtemporal perspective.
2009, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Hassan Charaf, Mobile peer to peer (P2P): a tutorial guide, page 24The fact is that many relations we are familiar with are transtemporal, that is, they obtain between entities located a different times.
2012, Fabrice Correia, Andrea Iacona, Around the Tree, →ISBN, page 38 - not comparablehuman sciencesAcross time; persistent.
Recall that one's personal essence is constituted as having a transtemporal validity by position-taking acts. I constitute myself as a personal essence with acts whose validity is “from now on.”
2009, James Hart, Who One Is: Book 2: Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology, →ISBN1 more example
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.
1994, John D Greenwood, Realism, Identity and Emotion: Reclaiming Social Psychology, →ISBN - not comparableanatomyAcross the temporal lobe of the brain.
The transtemporal window varies with each patient and the ability to penetrate the temporal bone varies with age, sex, and ethnicity.
2004, Vikram Dogra, Deborah J. Rubens, Ultrasound Secrets, →ISBN, page 3951 more example
Despite concerns that the facial nerve is in proximity to the dissection, a transtemporal approach to the midface provides a safe and reliable lift with a predictable postoperative course.
2011, Morris E. Hartstein, Allan E. Wulc, David E.E. Holck, Midfacial Rejuvenation, →ISBN, page 65
Origin
Translations
Japanese 超時間
- 超時間 (chōjikan)transtemporal
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with transtemporal
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