secular

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 References

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɛk.jə.lə(ɹ)/, /sɛk.jʊu.lɑː(ɹ)/ (British)
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[edit] Etymology

Latin saecularis, of the age, from saeculum

[edit] Adjective

secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)

1. Not specifically religious.
2. (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

   secular clergy in Catholicism

3. Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
4. Happening from age to age.

   the secular games of ancient Rome

5. Long-term.

   The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.

   on a secular basis

6. (astrophysics) Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
7. (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 ν_α and ν_β are derived from eqn.(21) by ...

[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)

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[edit] References

• Webster's English Dictionary