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

• nonspatially adverb
• quasi-spatially adverb
• unspatially adverb

Etymology

Origin of spatially

spatial ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

"Instead, we examined how extremes are spatially connected, which provides much more information about the patterns driving droughts and floods globally."

From Science Daily

“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

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

"Our marketing is much more digitally led, much less spatially targeted," said Wells.

From BBC

It is most often used to study how macromolecules, cellular organelles, or cells are spatially organized, providing structural and contextual insights at sub-nanometer resolution.

From Science Daily