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spatial

/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/

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SPAY-shuhl: tial becomes “shuhl.”

Start with sp followed immediately by the long a of “day.” Spatial has two syllables, with no separate ee before the ending.

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What does spatial mean?

adjective

  1. Pertaining to (the dimension of) space.
  2. Pertaining to (outer) space.

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/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/

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Since language springs entirely from material, spatial things, there is always an element of metaphor in theological statement.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsGod, the Invisible KingProject Gutenberg ebook #1046
There will be nothing in the conceptual definitions even to suggest spatial form, size, or direction.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852
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Obviously the spatial distribution of the subject of its contents and its subscribers--i.e., “round about the whole earth,” or “Concerning all lands and all peoples.”
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
Thus we may assume that there is a physical space in which physical objects have spatial relations corresponding to those which the corresponding sense-data have in our private spaces.
Bertrand RussellThe Problems of PhilosophyProject Gutenberg ebook #5827
Any moment some great imagination may leap out into the dark, touch the secret places of life, lay bare the cardinal mystery of the marriage of the spatial with the non-spatial.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909