spatial
or spa·cial
[spey-shuh l]
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Origin of spatial
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Contemporary Examples
This spatial displacement reveals your thirst for freedom, your desire for openness and to break with the protest novel.
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His playful geometric and spatial derivations are translations of some of the most basic and beautiful laws of language.
The element they have in common, Howie tells The Daily Beast, is “the use of spatial limits to intensify desire.”
The wall behind her is made of cardboard and painted a peacock blue, and it functions in spatial terms as a studio backdrop.
Historical Examples
In spatial movement and in change in general they saw only pure illusion.
Creative EvolutionHenri Bergson
Deduction, then, does not work unless there be spatial intuition behind it.
Creative EvolutionHenri Bergson
Yet it is evidently in its origin rather temporal than spatial.
Essays Towards a Theory of KnowledgeAlexander Philip
What, then, can be the spatial representations which arise from touch?
Essays Towards a Theory of KnowledgeAlexander Philip
How far and with what advantage may these distinctions be stated in spatial terms?
Introduction to the Science of SociologyRobert E. Park
spatial
spacial
- of or relating to space
- existing or happening in space
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Word Origin and History for spatial
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spatial
- Relating to space or a space.
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