spatially

[ spey-shuh-lee ]

adverb

1. in a way that relates to space or to the location or extent of objects in three-dimensional space:

   Space and time are two ways in which things are spread out in relationship to each other: spatially things are here and there, and temporally things are before and after.

Other Words From

• non·spa·tial·ly adverb
• qua·si-spa·tial·ly adverb
• un·spa·tial·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of spatially¹

spatial ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

You would also see six extra spatial dimensions, which string theory says are curled up at every point in our familiar 4D space-time fabric.

From Quanta Magazine

He walked the parade loop five times to ensure he understood its spatial limitations.

From Washington Post

The olfactory cortex is not organized in a logical spatial manner, like other sensory cortices are.

From Nautilus

New fine-tuned climate simulations that include spatial variations in temperature and precipitation across the island also improved on past temperature reconstructions.

From Science News

The region of the brain called the hippocampus, which is critical for spatial navigation and memory, sparked with ripples of electrical waves in sleep.

From Singularity Hub 

Her uncanny juxtapositions are provocative—spatially, aesthetically, and psychologically.

From The Daily Beast

An entity merely known as spatially related to some discerned entity is what we mean by the bare idea of ‘place.’

From Project Gutenberg

As already pointed out, nature and super-nature were taken as physically and spatially distinct.

From Project Gutenberg

It is probable that muticus and calvatus would be capable of interbreeding if they were not spatially isolated.

From Project Gutenberg

In this sense the Spirit can be no more spatially extended, and no more omnipresent, than the Father or the Son.

From Project Gutenberg

Visual sensations are spread out spatially, and thus fall into spatial patterns.

From Project Gutenberg