SPATIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spatially mean? 

• SPATIALLY (adverb)
  The adverb SPATIALLY has 1 sense:

1. with regard to space

  Familiarity information: SPATIALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPATIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With regard to space

Context example:

spatially limited

Pertainym:

spacial (pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space)

 Context examples 

The calculations revealed that such a model can explain the perplexing spatially clustered orbits of some TNOs.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

One interesting feature of these neurons is that they have large spatially organized receptive fields, yet can be activated by pulling a single hair.

(Study uncovers specialized mouse neurons that play a unique role in pain, National Institutes of Health)

Instead it is spatially smeared into nearby pixels (voxels) corresponding to its surrounding medium.

(Image Spillover, NCI Thesaurus)

Phenomenon in a reconstructed image where true activity concentration of the tissue immediately adjacent to an object being studied, not displayed totally in its own corresponding pixels (voxels), appears spatially smeared into pixels (voxels) of this object.

(Image Spill-in, NCI Thesaurus)

A measure of resolution used when a system's response y (such as image-displayed activity concentration) to an ideal infinitely narrow spatially distributed input shows a width in its values surrounding a maximum when plotted against a locating variable x (such as distance relative to this input location).

(Full Width at Half Maximum, NCI Thesaurus)