secular
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- sæcular (archaic)
[edit] Etymology
Latin saecularis, of the age, from saeculum
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Adjective
secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)
- Not specifically religious.
- Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
- secular clergy in Catholicism
- Happening once in an age or century.
- The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
- Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
- The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
- on a secular basis
- (astrophysics) Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
- (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
- 2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
- The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies να and νβ are derived from eqn.(21) by ...
- 2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
[edit] Synonyms
- worldly (1)
[edit] Antonyms
- nonsecular
- religious (1)
- sacred (1) (used especially of music)
- monastic (2)
- regular (2) (as regular clergy in Catholicism)
- eternal (3)
- everlasting (3)
- frequent (4)
- unpredictable (4)
- non-recurring (4)
- short-term (5) (finance)
- cyclical (5) (finance)
[edit] Translations
not specifically religious
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not bound by the vows of a monastic order
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happening once in an age or century
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long-term
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astrophysics: of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities
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atomic physics: unperturbed over time
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[edit] Adjective
secular m. and f. (plural seculares; comparable)