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spatial
Having to do with space. Contrast with "temporal," which deals with time.
spatial [′spā·shəl]
(physics)
Of or pertaining to space; occupying space; occurring in, or conditioned by, space; considered with relation to space.
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Indeed, it seems that in defining contraries of every kind men have recourse to a spatial metaphor, for they say that those things are contraries which, within the same class, are separated by the greatest possible distance.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
There is, therefore, an important sense in which we may say that, if we analyse as much as we ought, our data, outside psychology, consist of sensations, which include within themselves certain spatial and temporal relations.
The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context
 
 
 
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