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spaciotemporal

spaciotemporal

9.9
Relating to where and when something happens
  • adjective
  • /ˌspeɪʃiəʊˈtɛmpərəl/
  • Specialized
: espaciotemporal
  • The scientist studied the spaciotemporal effects of gravity on light.

Examples

  • The relationships you have are spaciotemporal distances between events.

  • Brave souls get sucked into wormholes—vortices into the spaciotemporal great unknown—but the great unknown charitably spits its victims back out, newly confident and enlightened.

    Academic text (1994)

  • What's wrong with thinking that spaciotemporal structure is just there?

  • In her lecture, she explained how spaciotemporal factors influence climate change.

  • The artwork cleverly depicts a spaciotemporal concept of time and space merging.

Synonyms

spatiotemporal
vsspaciotemporal
  • Specialized
1 9.2

About where and when something happens

is the same in meaning but spelled with a different vowel pattern

Surface Forms

spaciotemporal positive

Morphology

spaciotemporal = spatial + temporal (transparent) = spatio + temporal

The word is a straightforward compound of spatial (space) + temporal (time) using a linking vowel; meaning is directly inferable as relating to space and time.

Etymology

Spaciotemporal comes from parts that mean 'space' and 'time': spatio- (like space) and -temporal (from Latin 'tempus' for 'time'). So, spaciotemporal describes something that exists or happens in both space and time.