Anatomy, a double part of the head, reaching from the forehead and eyes to the two ears. The temples are chiefly formed of two bones called os temporis. These parts, according to physicians, were called tempora, from their showing the age or time of a man by the colour of the hair, which turns white in this part before any other; which Homer seems to have been aware of, by his calling men poliokrotaphi, q.d. "grey-templed."