spatial

Pertaining to (the dimension of) space.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to (the dimension of) space.
    • In the one case these are spatial, in the other chromatic, in the third moral; and would be what the Germans call intensiv in a fourth case, if I were to say, "Camphor smells milder than ammonia." - 1879, William James,...
    • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution,...
  2. Pertaining to (outer) space.
    • It was a land that could no longer be seriously described as underdeveloped, a land that has been able to achieve remarkably high rates of growth in its industrial production and gross national product since 1928, and a...
    • By following the roadmap suggested by Godunov himself, the next step in order to reduce truncation errors in a context of large gradients should be to set up moving mesh methods; a suggestion from the man who created...
    • According to Peter Dickens, the cosmos has become capitalism's new “outside,” and these “outer space imperialisms” are now seeking “outer spatial fixes”—investments in outer space—to solve the crises of capitalism...

Origin

From Latin spatium + -al.

Forms

spacial

Synonyms

spatio-

Related

cubic

Derived

aerospatial antispatial aspatial audiospatial chronospatial circumspatial cospatial cyberspatial equispatial geospatial hapticospatial hemispatial hydrospatial hyperspatial interspatial macrospatial metaspatial microspatial multispatial nonspatial omnispatial placial pseudospatial sociospatial