SPATIAL RELATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spatial relation mean? 

• SPATIAL RELATION (noun)
  The noun SPATIAL RELATION has 1 sense:

1. the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated

  Familiarity information: SPATIAL RELATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPATIAL RELATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

position; spatial relation

Context example:

he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage

Hypernyms ("spatial relation" is a kind of...):

relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)

Attribute:

anterior (of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body)

posterior (located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure)

external (happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface)

internal (happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface)

outer (being on the outside or further from a center)

inner (located or occurring within or closer to a center)

exterior (situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building)

interior (situated within or suitable for inside a building)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spatial relation"):

externality; outwardness (the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior)

angular position (relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established)

direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)

elbow room; room; way (space for movement)

slot (a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable)

erectness; uprightness; verticality; verticalness (position at right angles to the horizon)

horizontality (the quality of being parallel to the horizon)

southernness (the property of being to the south)

northernness (the property of being to the north)

malposition; misplacement (faulty position)

inwardness (the quality or state of being inward or internal)

occlusion ((dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed)

posteriority (the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end)

anteriority (the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head)

marginality (the property of being marginal or on the fringes)

centrality (the property of being central)

dead center; dead centre (the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque)

coincidence (the quality of occupying the same position or area in space)

point of view (the spatial property of the position from which something is observed)

arrangement; placement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)

gradient; slope (the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal)

inclination; lean; leaning; list; tilt (the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical)

 Context examples 

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

(Direction, NCI Thesaurus)

The spatial relation of the upper and lower teeth when the jaws are closed.

(Dental Occlusion, NCI Thesaurus)