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spatial

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Shapes, patterns
spa·tial /ˈspeɪʃəl/ adjective  CFrelating to the position, size, shape etc of things 空间的spatially adverb
Examples from the Corpus
spatialWhat many such individuals have done is to use their superior spatial abilities to buttress their weaker verbal pattern comprehension abilities.Of these spatial concentrations of modernized industry, Chirton Industrial Estate is the oldest.In particular, the spatial irregularity apparent in Fig. 22.8 reflects irregular fluctuations in time.The result is that their high social mobility does not entail high levels of long distance spatial mobility.The space-economy for example is simply the spatial pattern of organization created by the industrial economy; it is not an independent variable.The problem is one of relating the spatial pattern with the spatial process.Girls who were exposed to male hormones in the womb are better at spatial tasks.Spatialization is the invention of a spatial world as the map upon which we plot experience.
Origin spatial (1800-1900) Latin spatium; → SPACE1
spa·tial adjectiveChineseSyllable
shape Corpus the position, etc size, to relating


spatial
spatial /ˈspeɪʃəl/ adjective
 Date: 1800-1900
 Language: Latin
 Origin: spatium; space1
relating to the position, size, shape etc of things
—spatially adverb


spa·tial (also spa·cial) BrE /ˈspeɪʃl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈspeɪʃl/ 🔊 adjective (formal or specialist) relating to space and the position, size, shape, etc. of things in it 空间的changes taking place in the spatial distribution of the population人口的地域分布所发生的变化the development of a child's spatial awareness (= the ability to judge the positions and sizes of objects) 孩子空间意识的形成 spa·tial·ly BrE /ˈspeɪʃəli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈspeɪʃəli/ 🔊 adverb