Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, involving, or having the nature of space.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of, pertaining to, or relating to space; existing in or connected with space.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to space.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to space.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space
Etymologies
- From Latin spatium + -al. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin spatium, space. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If you haven't heard of the term spatial data, do not worry.”
“Such form is the expression of an obstacle to action which determines all our movements, and in which we discover those forms of the limitations of activity which we call spatial characters.”
“Robert – yes, the UKMO builds weather forecasting and climate models from the same unified code base, so that the two types of model share a large amount of code; for example they use the same dynamical code, and much of the same physics, but differ when the big difference in spatial or temporal resolution demands a different way of computing stuff.”
“They're likely to think about colour in spatial terms, rather than nominal terms, be able to picture a shade in their head even before mixing the paints they need to get that colour.”
“One can trace the efforts to link life and geography—in the guise of what are called spatial automata—to a study by the great John von Neumann, who believed that biological organisms could be thought of as information-processing systems.”
“By fknvty, February 25, 2010 @ 9: 17 pm be interested to see what all and sundry think of this little charmer. a senior lecturer no less, in spatial perception in artificial environments, has been published. point your search engines to peter lennox, “pecking order” (title of article) 4 feb 2010. courtesy of THE (times higher education) pz.v. p.s. expecting a sampled 45 rpm single to be released soon.”
“The second set are more complex, and flow from the cumulative impact of the interaction of the individual reform packages on long-term spatial inequalities.”
The Guardian: Uncertainty facing councils under housing reforms
“Based on my limited knowledge of neurological differences between men and women, my guess is that the LSAT emphasizes skills where men tend to have a natural advantage, such as certain spatial tasks, and deemphasizes skills where women tend to have stronger ability, such as short-term memory.”
“Although appreciable interdecadal variability was found, significant long-term spatial patterns and temporal trends in freeze-up and breakup dates were identified for the period.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘spatial’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
nonparametric, nonparametric sta..., multivariate anal..., partial different..., multivariate, topology, stochastic, differential equa..., linear algebra, harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorial and 205 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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my_GRE_2013
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veracity, siphon, refute, chasm, mar, abyss, squeamish, fastidious, meticulous, crescendo, intuitive, peril and 13 more...
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GPaX. Words.
excogitate, clarity, obscurity, tangential, interesting, regurgitate, mycelium, degradation, unladen, swallow, klein, quote and 120 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Willieb's Words
pusillanimous, exigible, extraneous, contemptible, banal, generic, secular, canard, acerbic, erudite, versus, atheist and 192 more...
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English
experiential, extempore, extirpate, extrapolate, extricate, facistic, fallacious, fascistic, fastidious, flummoxed, frontispiece, fungible and 398 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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space
plenum, exergue, ramage, berth, lacuna, swath, hollow, gap, expanse, between, margin, spandrel and 88 more...
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