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

• nonspatially
  adverb
• unspatially
  adverb
• quasi-spatially
  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

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

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

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

The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

If the universe is indeed spatially infinite, or if there are infinitely many universes, there would probably be some large regions somewhere that started out in a smooth and uniform manner.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking