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Occipital vs Temporal - What's the difference?

occipital | temporal |

In skeleton|lang=en terms the difference between occipital and temporal

is that occipital is (skeleton) the occipital bone while temporal is (skeleton) either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.

As adjectives the difference between occipital and temporal

is that occipital is of or pertaining to the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone while temporal is of or relating to time or temporal can be of the temples of the head.

As nouns the difference between occipital and temporal

is that occipital is (skeleton) the occipital bone while temporal is (chiefly|in the plural) anything temporal or secular; a temporality or temporal can be (skeleton) either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.

occipital

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone.
  • Derived terms

    * occipital arch * occipital artery * occipital bone * occipital bun * occipital condyle * occipital crest * occipital cryoneurolysis * occipital ganglion * occipital groove * occipital lobe * occipital nerve * occipital neuralgia * occipital pole * occipital protuberance * occipital ridge * occipital scale * occipital sinus * occipital triangle * occipital vein

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (skeleton) The occipital bone.
  • An occipital scale in reptiles.
  • temporal

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporalis, from .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to time.
  • Of limited time; not perpetual.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18
  • The things which are seen are temporal , but the things which are not seen are eternal.
  • Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to (spiritual).
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 166:
  • Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.
  • Lasting a short time only.
  • Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.
  • temporal''' power; '''temporal courts
    Derived terms
    * extratemporal * metatemporal * temporality * temporally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
  • (Dryden)
  • * Lowell
  • He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals .

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of the temples of the head
  • Derived terms
    * temporal bone * temporal lobe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (skeleton) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
  • Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.