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[Secular]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Not specifically religious ; lay or civil , as opposed to clerical ; profane .
2. Temporal ; worldly , or otherwise not based on something timeless .
3. [en] Not bound by the vows of a monastic order .
4. Happening once in an age or century.
5. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term .
6. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2005 | author=Alpha Chiang; Kevin Wainwright | title=Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics | edition=4th | publisher=McGraw-Hill International | page=501
|passage=In this event, the <math>s\phi(k)</math> curve in Fig. 15.5 will be
subject to a SECULAR upward shift, resulting in successively higher
intersections with the <math>\lambda k</math> ray and also in larger values of
<math>\bar k</math>.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] Centuries-old, ancient.
3. * [part=III]
4. [en] Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities , especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2003 | author=E. T. Jaynes | title=Probability Theory: The Logic of Science | pages=234–235 | publisher=Cambridge University Press
|passage=Laplace (1749–1827) "saved the world" by using probability theory to
estimate the parameters accurately enough to show that the drift of Jupiter
was not SECULAR after all; the observations at hand had covered only a
fraction of a cycle of an oscillation with a period of about 880 years.}}
1. [en] Unperturbed over time.
2. * 2000 , S. A. Dikanov, _Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy_ , in _New Advances in Analytical Chemistry_ (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
3. *: _The SECULAR A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ν<sub>α</sub> and ν<sub>β</sub> are derived from eqn.(21) by ..._
**** Synonyms
- [not religious] [en]
- [centuries old] [en] , [en]
**** Antonyms
- [en]
- [not religious] [en]
- [not religious] [en] (used especially of music )
- [not bound by monastic vows] [en]
- [not bound by monastic vows] [en] (as _REGULAR clergy_ in Catholicism)
- [en] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [finance] [en]
- [finance] [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|secular clergy|Secular Zionism |multisecular |paleosecular
|plurisecular |pro-secular |secular arm |secular equilibrium |secularism
|secularist |secularize |secularly |secular progressivism |secular resonance
|semisecular }}
**** Related terms
{{col|en|secle }}
**** Translations
[not specifically religious]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[temporal]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] ,
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[not bound by the vows of a monastic order]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[happening once in an age or century]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Italian: [it] , [it] [rare]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[long-term]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] ,
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[astrophysics: of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[atomic physics: unperturbed over time]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Malayalam: [ml]
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- material
- mundane
- practical
- quotidian
- rational
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A secular ecclesiastic , or one not bound by monastic rule s.
2. * [passage=On further examination, I found the clergy, in general, persons of moderate minds and decorous manners : I include the SECULARS , and the regulars of both sexes]
3. A church official whose function s are confined to the vocal department of the choir . [1]
4. A layman , as distinguished from a clergyman .
**** Translations
[secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the
choir]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[layman, as distinguished from a clergyman]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Italian: [it]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
References:
[1]. 1817 , [Thomas Busby] , _A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical_
- [R:OneLook]
- [R:Keywords 21st]
- [R:Century 1911]
- Webster's English Dictionary (see http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/wget.cgi?secular)
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Catalan
*** Etymology
[ca]..
*** Pronunciation
- [[a(rr) ]] < !-- per GDLC -->
- [ca]
*** Adjective
[ca-adj]
1. [en]
**** Derived terms
- [ca]
- [ca]
*** Further reading
- [R:ca:IEC2]
- [R:ca:GDLC]
- [R:ca:DNV]
- [R:ca:DCVB]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [pt].
*** Pronunciation
[secularh]
- [pt]
*** Adjective
[pt-adj]
1. [en]
**** Derived terms
- [pt]
- [pt]
*** Further reading
- [R:pt:Priberam]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro], from [ro].
*** Adjective
[ro-adj]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[ro-decl-adj]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
[es]. [es].
*** Pronunciation
[es-pr]
*** Adjective
[es-adj]
1. [en]
**** Derived terms
[es]
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]