SPATIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spatial mean? 

• SPATIAL (adjective)
  The adjective SPATIAL has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space

  Familiarity information: SPATIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPATIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

spacial; spatial

Context example:

the spatial distribution of the population

Antonym:

nonspatial (not spatial)

Pertainym:

space (the unlimited expanse in which everything is located)

Derivation:

space (the unlimited expanse in which everything is located)

spatiality (any property relating to or occupying space)

 Context examples 

The terminology that includes concepts relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard for the Exchange of Non-clinical Data (SEND) specimen spatial organization.

(CDISC SEND Specimen Spatial Organization Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Large in quantity, range, or spatial extent.

(Extensive, NCI Thesaurus)

No one has taken visible-wavelength spectra of Europa before that had this sort of spatial and spectral resolution.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

While the brain areas working with the cortex to focus spatial attention have been identified, the regions involved in object-based attention have been less clear.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

The spatial property of the way in which something is placed.

(Arrangement, NCI Thesaurus)

The spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves.

(Direction, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers investigated the spatial patterns of springtime U.S. regional tornado outbreaks from 1950-2014 and their connection to springtime phases of ENSO.

(Ocean temperatures may hold key to predicting tornado outbreaks, NOAA)

The spatial orientation of the cervical cells is often aberrant due to the lack of an organized growth process. 2005

(Cervical Atypia, NCI Thesaurus)

The spatial property of a body; where it is or the way in which it is situated.

(Body Position, NCI Thesaurus)

Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; the point in space or time where something begins.

(Begin, NCI Thesaurus)