Secular (disambiguation)

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Secular has at least two meanings: separate from religion; and aperiodic.

For the first meaning, see secularism, secularity, secularization and references therein.

In the second meaning, secular may refer to:

• Secular basis, a long-term financial basis
• Secular equilibrium, a situation in which the quantity of a radioactive isotope remains constant
• Secular phenomena, astronomical phenomena that repeat too slowly to be observed, if at all
• Secular variation, the long-term non-periodic variation of a time series
• Secular Games, a religious celebration held in ancient Rome

See also

• Secular clergy
• Secular humanism
• Secular education
• Organized secularism
• Secular institute, a Catholic organization of individuals who are consecrated persons while living in the world