单词 | space-occupancy |
释义 | > as lemmasspace-occupancy b. Relating to space (branch II.) as a general concept, as space-consciousness, space continuum, space-effect, space-element, space harmony, space-image, space-occupancy, space-perception, space-relation, space-sensation, space-sense, space-symmetry, space-value, etc. ΚΠ 1841 M. Stuart Gram. New Test. Dial. 185 The original space-relation..may be easily discovered in a great variety of phrases which now designate causal relations. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. vii. §71. 250 We can mentally diminish the velocity or space-element of motion. 1865 S. H. Hodgson Time & Space ii. 75 The space-senses sight and touch..are brought into play simultaneously with the other senses. 1872 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. vi. xiv. 196 Some space-consciousness accompanies the sensation of taste. 1872 J. R. Green Lett. (1901) 338 The most wonderful church in point of space-effect (if I may coin the word) I ever saw. 1875 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind II. 278 What is signified in speaking of material extension is space-occupancy. 1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 286 It is essential that the directions..should be unmistakably distinguished in the space-image. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 195 Let the movement bc, of a certain joint, derive its absolute space-value from the cutaneous feeling it is always capable of engendering. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 219 We must..seek to discover by what means the circumstances can so have transformed a space-sensation. 1893 Month Apr. 483 It is contrary to all our experience of space-occupancy. 1911 W. James Some Probl. Philos. xi. 182 God, as the orthodox believe, created the space-continuum, with its infinite parts already standing in it, by an instantaneous fiat. 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind 72 Psychology of space-perception. 1932 F. L. Wright Autobiogr. ii. 145 Freedom of floorspace and elimination of useless heights worked a miracle in the new dwelling place... An entirely new sense of space values in architecture came home. 1949 Social Forces 28 42/2 The student, by following a carefully phrased set of map instructions, works out the space relations (both geomatic and relative) as well as significant surface features. 1957 H. Read Tenth Muse xxxi. 279 A distinction between an aesthetic consciousness determined by time-sense (music and poetry) and an aesthetic consciousness determined by space-sense (the plastic arts). 1965 W. Lamb Posture & Gesture iv. 56 The process of variation, sometimes under the heading Narrow-Wide, is recognized and figures as a component in ‘Space Harmonies’. 1979 Nature 11 Oct. 433/1 Depending on the symmetry of the lattice and of the arrangement of the atoms within each cell, a crystal is assigned to one of the 230 possible space-symmetry groups. 1993 Appliance (Nexis) May 59 On the commercial level, they seek space-consciousness because space is expense right now. < as lemmas |
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