secular

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Latin saecularis, of the age, from saeculum

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secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)

Positive
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 να and νβ are derived from eqn.(21) by ...

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