spatially

American  

[spey-shuh-lee] / ˈspeɪ ʃə li /

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.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• unspatially
  adverb
• quasi-spatially
  adverb
• nonspatially
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of spatially

spatial ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

The updates included more advanced photo editing capabilities, amplifying existing Apple features and making it possible to spatially adjust photos in myriad ways, altering the framing in addition to deleting unwanted people or background objects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

“Things don’t have the same depth of field. When my friend was tying her shoelaces behind me, it was just so loud. Things spatially were being thrown. It was disorienting.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

The reef has "experienced unprecedented levels of heat stress, which caused the most spatially extensive and severe bleaching recorded to date," the report found.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

In this way, they obtained spatially and temporally finely resolved locations where vultures fed.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

No matter how hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson