temporal relation

collocation in English

meaningsoftemporalandrelation

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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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relation
noun
uk
/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
us
/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
the way in which two people or groups of people feel and behave towards ...
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(Definition oftemporalandrelationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thetemporalrelationof adherence and alliance to symptom change in cognitive therapy for depression.
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At this point, little is known about thetemporalrelationbetween bipolar illness and apparent deficits in prefrontal cor tical functioning.
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If such atemporalrelationis expressed by a pronoun, such a use of that pronoun is sometimes referred to as its universal use.
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If such atemporalrelationis expressed by a pronoun, such a use of that pronoun is sometimes referred to as 'the universal use'.
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Any time that can serve as the origin of atemporalrelationexpressed by a tense form is called a 'time of orientation'.
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While it surely is another input, this input has a differenttemporalrelationto the behavior represented in the figure.
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Most useful for race studies in this proposal is the way in which it disrupts thetemporalrelationbetween purity and mixture.
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The temporal sense means existence or occurrence at one and the same time and refers to atemporalrelationtemporal events bear to one another.
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Thetemporalrelationof anxiety disorder and onset of bipolar disorder may vary by anxiety subtype.
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Newmeyer concludes that grammaticalization fails to always show discrete steps and that bleaching and reanalysis are not in a fixedtemporalrelation.
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The model assumes that neurons, which are part of the same assembly, fire in synchrony, whereas no consistenttemporalrelationis found between cells belonging to representations of different speakers.
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In describing tense, it is usual to focus exclusively on thetemporalrelationbetween the actual time of speaking and the full duration of an actual event occurrence.
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The presence of still is an important cue for a contrast relation, though it does not unambiguously signal contrast, since it can also indicate a purelytemporalrelation.
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This subset of states includes those that are either transient or explicitly marked as participating in atemporalrelation.
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The two series differ principally in their use of tense to describe thetemporalrelationbetween events.
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Qualitative predicates, like green, "can" be assessed without knowing the spatial ortemporalrelationof "x" to a particular time, place or event.
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These standards typically include annotations for some or all of temporal expressions (or "timexes"), events, temporal relations, temporal signals, andtemporalrelationtypes.
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