transtemporal

Adjective

transtemporal (not comparable)

1. Transcending time; relating to time travel or to the influence or communication between one time and another.
   • At the same time that their protagonists "step off the edge" of known experience by participating in interplanetary, interdimensional, or transtemporal travel, such writers as Dorothy Bryant, Mary Staton, and (to a lesser degree) Ursula K. Le Guin propose through their narratives' complexity that...1984, Natalie Myra Rosinsky, Feminist futures--contemporary women's speculative fiction, page 29
   • However, the Internet has also reversed the way we communicate in terms of the transspatial and transtemporal perspective.2009, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Hassan Charaf, Mobile peer to peer (P2P): a tutorial guide, page 24
2. Across time; persistent.
   • Yet as Locke, for example, clearly recognized, the transtemporal numerical identity of particular vegetables and animals is nevertheless determined by a continuant, namely a form of 'organization' sufficient to maintain vegetable or animal life: that is, to maintain the intrinsic properties of...1994, John D Greenwood, Realism, Identity and Emotion: Reclaiming Social Psychology, →ISBN
   • Recall that one's personal essence is constituted as having a transtemporal validity by position-taking acts. I constitute myself as a personal essence with acts whose validity is “from now on.”2009, James Hart, Who One Is: Book 2: Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology, →ISBN
3. Across the temporal lobe of the brain.
   • The transtemporal window varies with each patient and the ability to penetrate the temporal bone varies with age, sex, and ethnicity.2004, Vikram Dogra, Deborah J. Rubens, Ultrasound Secrets, →ISBN, page 395
   • Despite concerns that the facial nerve is in proximity to the dissection, a transtemporal approach to the midface provides a safe and reliable lift with a predictable postoperative course.2011, Morris E. Hartstein, Allan E. Wulc, David E.E. Holck, Midfacial Rejuvenation, →ISBN, page 65