secular

  1. Adjective.  Not specifically religious.
  2. Adjective.  Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
  3. Adjective.  (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
  4. Adjective.  Happening once in an age or century.
  5. Adjective.  Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
  6. Adjective.  (astrophysics) Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
  7. Adjective.  (context, atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.

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