temporal cohesion | cohesion | if the other types of cohesion have been achieved | weaker than procedural cohesion | a designer would achieve temporal cohesion by placing together all the code used during system start-up or initialization | operations that are performed during the same phase of the execution of the program are kept together, and everything else is kept out | A form of cohesion in which aspects of a system are grouped together which are used during the same phase of execution of a program, i.e. execute close together in time |