Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Physics The four-dimensional continuum of one temporal and three spatial coordinates in which any event or physical object is located.
Wiktionary
- n. physics Alternative form of spacetime.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the four-dimensional coordinate system in which all physical objects of the known universe are located, and in which all physical events occur; it consists of three spatial dimensions and one time dimension; -- also called the
space-time continuum .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the four-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located
Examples
“It appeared they were bound into a stony, aeon-slow echelon upon the ladder of time, in complete defiance of any notion of the wholeness of what science calls the "space-time continuum".”
“In that last eternal moment before the illusion called time ceased to be, the expansion of what had been called space-time abruptly stopped.”
““From Q’s input,” Tuvok said while operating a console, “we should now be able to synchronize the Array to scan for non-corporeal entities outside of space-time, which is apparently where Captain Sisko now exists.””
“Again we become aware of how gracefully the sun and earth waltz with each other through the ballroom of space-time, eliciting awes and hallelujahs.”
The Huffington Post: Wes Nisker: Worship The Sun! (Not Just The Son)
“By the time the club opened for dancing, dozens of impressively unattractive single men appeared from some sort of crack in the space-time continuum.”
“Gregory Benford's Galactic Center novels (which are very good) conclude in the final volume with a battle between man and machine in a protected body of space-time hanging just outside the central black hole.”
The SF Fanatic: SF Explores The Ideas Mainstream Fiction Won't
“Our new interpretation of space-time sheds light on the question previously raised as to why people lived long lives closer to the time of the biblical Adam, and why the average lifespan decreased to a low point only to rise again.”
The Huffington Post: Yehuda Berg: Kabbalah: A Sacred Science of the Future
“With this behind us, we may now begin to understand how the space-time phenomenon makes possible prophecy and prediction.”
The Huffington Post: Yehuda Berg: Kabbalah: A Sacred Science of the Future
“As we approach the Age of Aquarius, our space-time consciousness is being elevated.”
The Huffington Post: Yehuda Berg: Kabbalah: A Sacred Science of the Future
“The biblical parable concerning the Tower of Babel illustrates that although they lived in this upper frame of space-time reaping all the benefits of their state of being, that civilization did not necessarily achieve a spiritual awareness of Desire to Receive for the Sake of Sharing.”
The Huffington Post: Yehuda Berg: Kabbalah: A Sacred Science of the Future
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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Technical characters, Annexed engraving, Figured under, Compare Cut Under, See Phrases Under, Originally, Literally or Figu..., See Table at, See list under, See Illust., In the figure, See extract and 13 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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