spatial
or spa·cial
[spey-shuh l]
adjective
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- spathe,
- spathic,
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- spathose,
- spathulate,
- spatial frequency,
- spatial summation,
- spatiality,
- spatially,
- spatiography
Origin of spatial
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1847, from Latin spatium + adjectival suffix -al (1); formed in English as an adjective to space (n.), to go with temporal.
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