temporal scale

collocation in English

meaningsoftemporalandscale

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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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scale
noun
uk
/skeɪl/
us
/skeɪl/
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level ...
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(Definition oftemporalandscalefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If behavioural change is continuous, then an environmental causative factor should vary over a similartemporalscale.
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However, the relationship between a perennial wheat crop and its pathogens is on a differenttemporalscalethan an annual crop.
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The processes occur at a broad range of spatial andtemporalscale.
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This has to be scaled with the questions addressed, the geographical scale of studies and thetemporalscaleof sampling, if repeated sampling is included.
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A further factor may be thetemporalscaleover which observations are made.
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As this is hardly atemporalscaleof interest when analysing ongoing coevolutionary interactions, the approach described above seems more appropriate.
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In the present investigation, which remains unquantified, perceptual distinctness is considered on atemporalscalerather than on a spectral scale.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thetemporalscaleis the point in time or time span for which the system shall be considered.
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The context in which these artifact markers are found contributes to whether the chronology can be deemed viable and acceptable as atemporalscale.
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In a smallertemporalscale(week to month), the migrations are controlled by the meteorological conditions and the lunar cycles.
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The different temporal scales in which the currents can be stronger or weaker also render them more or less influential on ice conditions, respectively.
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They found robust contrasting patterns of over- and underconnectivity at distinct spatial and temporal scales.
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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.
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