temporal boundary

collocation in English

meaningsoftemporalandboundary

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temporal
adjective
uk
/ˈtem.pər.əl/us
/ˈtem.pɚ.əl/
formal
relating to practical matters or physical things, rather than ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/us
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition oftemporalandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftemporal boundary

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Several related utterances occurred beyond thetemporalboundaryof 4.25 seconds and several unrelated utterances occurred within that boundary.
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This utterance was one in which the raters' judgments fell outside the typicaltemporalboundaryfor related and unrelated utterances.
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On examination, it is found that all of the remaining situations, namely, 48 activities and eighteen semelfactives, have atemporalboundaryat the clause level.
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But when it is delimited by the quantifier yi-fan ' once ', atemporalboundaryis attached to it and the activity becomes temporally bounded.
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For example, (30a) and (31a) have atemporalboundaryas definite as, though not the same as, (30b) and (31b).
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Therefore, these verbs normally group with activity verbs and usually need an extra delimiting device to provide atemporalboundarywhen they co-occur with -le.
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Hockey (1990) has referred to this as atemporalboundarywhich complements the spatial boundaries (of, for example, the old persons' home or the hospital) between life and death.
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The boundary refers to the spatial andtemporalboundaryof the proposals effects.
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The scene combines three different types of recitative - a strategy that causes temporal boundaries to collapse as well.
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As work patterns change and the spatial and temporal boundaries between home and work are renegotiated, both the capacity of the building and its pattern of use will change significantly.
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The creation of professional service teams that transcend geographic and temporal boundaries offers the potential to change the face of many industries.
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In multi-sited ethnography, research tracks a subject across spatial and temporal boundaries.
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