temporal scale
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftemporalandscale
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withscale.
temporal
adjective
uk/ˈtem.pər.əl/us/ˈtem.pɚ.əl/
formal
relating to practical matters or physical things, rather than ...
See more attemporal
scale
noun
uk/skeɪl/us/skeɪl/
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level ...
See more atscale
(Definition oftemporalandscalefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftemporal scale
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
If behavioural change is continuous, then an environmental causative factor should vary over a similartemporalscale.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, the relationship between a perennial wheat crop and its pathogens is on a differenttemporalscalethan an annual crop.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The processes occur at a broad range of spatial andtemporalscale.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This has to be scaled with the questions addressed, the geographical scale of studies and thetemporalscaleof sampling, if repeated sampling is included.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A further factor may be thetemporalscaleover which observations are made.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As this is hardly atemporalscaleof interest when analysing ongoing coevolutionary interactions, the approach described above seems more appropriate.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In the present investigation, which remains unquantified, perceptual distinctness is considered on atemporalscalerather than on a spectral scale.
From theCambridge English Corpus
One scientist's qualitative change in dynamic properties may be of no direct interest to another scientist working at a different spatial ortemporalscale, either experimentally or theoretically.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Such a difference intemporalscalemay be due to a greater diversity and strength of densitydependent regulating agents such as disease or natural enemies in tropical forests.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Life is found to be more fundamental than attributes such as evolution, molecular species, compartmentalization, homeostasis, hierarchical complexity, enzyme catalysis, entropy, speciation, intelligence, independence, or spatial ortemporalscale.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thetemporalscaleis the point in time or time span for which the system shall be considered.
From This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Wikipedia
The context in which these artifact markers are found contributes to whether the chronology can be deemed viable and acceptable as atemporalscale.
From This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Wikipedia
In a smallertemporalscale(week to month), the migrations are controlled by the meteorological conditions and the lunar cycles.
From This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Wikipedia
The different temporal scales in which the currents can be stronger or weaker also render them more or less influential on ice conditions, respectively.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They found robust contrasting patterns of over- and underconnectivity at distinct spatial and temporal scales.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Their location was found to be related to atemporalscale, inhabiting depths of 50-100 m during the night and 100-400 m during the day.
From This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Wikipedia
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition oftemporal
Go to the definition ofscale
See other collocations withscale