Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, involving, or having the nature of space.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or relating to space; existing in or connected with space.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to space.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to space.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin spatium, space.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin spatium +‎ -al.

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Examples

  • If you haven't heard of the term spatial data, do not worry.

    Site Home 2010

  • In general, the term spatial resolution is reserved to describe the number of pixels utilized in constructing and rendering a digital image.

    unknown title 2009

  • In general, the term spatial resolution is reserved to describe the number of pixels utilized in constructing and rendering a digital image.

    unknown title 2009

  • In general, the term spatial resolution is reserved to describe the number of pixels utilized in constructing and rendering a digital image.

    unknown title 2009

  • 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.

    Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip

  • 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.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • 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.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Kinda buried. 2010

  • 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.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • 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.

    Documenting climate models | Serendipity 2010

  • 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.

    Creative Control - Part 5 Hal Duncan 2009

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