spatial
/ˈspeɪʃ(ə)l
/(also spacial)
adjective
Relating to space: the spatial distribution of population...
- Eventually they realised this was caused by limited physical spatial hand activity.
- The spatial qualities of sound can be exploited heavily to define an environment.
- Also, left-handed men and women are likely to have less well developed spacial awareness, suggesting that they may be more prone to accidents such as car crashes.
Derivatives
spatiality
- The third section closes with reflections on the spatiality of innovative relations.
- This eternal space, the chora, is a particularly complex form of spatiality.
- Both sections then, deal with the spatiality of being, and the role of positioning the self vis-a-vis an other.
spatialization
- In my view, it effects the spatialization of the ‘author-function.’
- Categorizing is a form of spatialization.
- Normalization rather than spatialization was privileged.
spatialize
- The discourse thus spatializes the subject in a much more decisive fashion than does ‘natural’ geography.
- His leisurely paced Mozart allowed for all the notes to be heard and was well spatialized.
- From long shot to close up, cinema spatialises time with different kinds of visual sequencing.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Latin spatium 'space' + -al.