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spatio-temporal, a.|ˌspeɪʃɪəʊˈtɛmpərəl|
[f. spatio-, used as comb. form of L. spatium space n.1 + temporal a.1]
Belonging to both space and time.
1900B. Russell Leibniz v. 57 Two things could not co-exist in one spatio-temporal point. 1920A. N. Whitehead Concept of Nature viii. 173 The spatio-temporal structure of events. a1931G. H. Mead Philos. of Act (1938) ii. xv. 232 Physical identity with distant objects gives functional contemporaneity, while the acts that are going on involve the actual concrete spatiotemporal happenings. 1954A. J. Ayer Philos. Ess. i. 3 Spatio⁓temporal points are individuals,..but not everyone would allow it to be said that they existed. 1975I. Stewart Concepts Mod. Math. xiv. 208 Depress your foot, and move slightly forward in time, thereby dragging a small loop of string with you in the time direction, though leaving most of the knot in its original spatio-temporal state. 1979A. R. Peacocke Creation & World of Science i. i. 24 A more general view that reality consists of two orders..: the natural/the supernatural; the spatio⁓temporal/the eternal; [etc.].
Hence ˌspatio-tempoˈrality, the quality or fact of being spatio-temporal; ˌspatio-temporaliˈzation, the fact of making or investing with spatio-temporal qualities or relations; ˌspatio-ˈtemporalized a.; ˌspatio-ˈtemporally adv., in space and time, with reference to both space and time.
1920S. Alexander Space, Time, & Deity I. 250 Relation..which unites things, is outside each of them spatially (or rather spatio-temporally). Ibid. 269 A category which arises not so much out of the character of spatio-temporality taken as a whole..as out of the ‘relation’..between the spatial and the temporal elements in any space-time. 1923C. D. Broad Sci. Thought x. 403 Science regards the ultimate scientific objects as being spatio-temporally homogeneous. 1940Mind XLIX. 185 The qualitative content must vanish with the abstraction of its spatio-temporality. Ibid., It remains possible to take the quality as the spatio-temporalized appearance of the real action of the ‘other’ with the ‘self’. Ibid. 324 Evidently the qualification is a function of the spatio-temporalization. 1959P. F. Strawson Individuals i. i. 34 Since spatio-temporally continuous existence is..observed neither in the case where we are inclined to speak of qualitative identity nor in the case where we are inclined to speak of numerical identity, by what right do we suppose that there is a fundamental difference between these cases? 1964P. Meadows in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. xxviii. 446 They sought to discern in the sweeping spatio-temporalizations of historic experience..the unfolding ‘form’..beyond appearance. 1980A. Quinton Francis Bacon vii. 62 Causes may be spatio-temporally remote from their effects. |