spatial relation
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- noun
- /ˈspeɪʃəl rɪˈleɪʃən/
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relación espacial
- Understanding spatial relations is crucial for architects when designing functional buildings.
- spatial relation and orientation
- temporal and spatial relations
Examples
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The concepts of hanan and hurin defined most aspects of Andean life, in particular, social and spatial relations, highlighting Andean understandings of reciprocity and complementarity.
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In Chivantito's painting, a perspectival composition is abandoned for one that emphasizes spatial relations between elements, thus shifting the painting's focus to a very specific view of Chinchero life.
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Regarding youth participation, understanding these spatial relations is valuable from two perspectives.
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Cyberspace changes real spatial relations.
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In fact, spatial relations may be increased in a more compact dataset.
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As the titles of these works suggest, space and spatial relations play an important role in Martin Gaite's narratives.
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Spatial relation refers to the proximity of an object in reference to an associative or relative object.
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In contrast, the gifted students used schematic representations (images that depict the spatial relations described in a problem) significantly more often than students with LD.
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Bigelow (1991) stated that tactile, proprioceptive, and auditory input can develop spatial relations among objects.
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Disciplinary differences notwithstanding, all of the authors reviewed here demonstrate that spatial relations are crucial to analyses of sexualized identities.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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The place where someone or something is placed
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Putting something in a particular place to make it work or look better
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Space between things like plants or letters
How things are placed in space near or far from each other
How Close
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'spatial' (pertaining to space) modifies 'relation' (a connection or arrangement), so the meaning—how things are positioned in space—is directly derivable from the parts. This is a common, cross-linguistic compositional pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who already knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Spatial relation comes from the words spatial, meaning about space, and relation, meaning how things are positioned to each other. Think of blocks on a table: where each block sits compared with the others is their spatial relation, so the phrase means the 'arrangement' or 'position' of things in space.