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secular
  • (adjective)
    1. Not specifically religious.
    2. 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 = over the long term
    6. Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
    7. 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 ...