Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The four-dimensional continuum of one temporal and three spatial coordinates in which any event or physical object is located.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the four-dimensional coordinate system in which all physical objects of the known universe are located, and in which all physical events occur; it consists of three spatial dimensions and one time dimension; -- also called the
space-time continuum .
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- noun physics Alternative form of
spacetime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the four-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located
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Examples
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It appeared they were bound into a stony, aeon-slow echelon upon the ladder of time, in complete defiance of any notion of the wholeness of what science calls the "space-time continuum".
Abomination at the Shilkie Andrew Edwards 2011
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In that last eternal moment before the illusion called time ceased to be, the expansion of what had been called space-time abruptly stopped.
MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000
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In that last eternal moment before the illusion called time ceased to be, the expansion of what had been called space-time abruptly stopped.
MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000
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In that last eternal moment before the illusion called time ceased to be, the expansion of what had been called space-time abruptly stopped.
MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000
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In that last eternal moment before the illusion called time ceased to be, the expansion of what had been called space-time abruptly stopped.
THE WAR OF THE PROPHETS JUDITH REEVES-STEVENS GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS 2000
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“From Q’s input,” Tuvok said while operating a console, “we should now be able to synchronize the Array to scan for non-corporeal entities outside of space-time, which is apparently where Captain Sisko now exists.”
STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007
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“From Q’s input,” Tuvok said while operating a console, “we should now be able to synchronize the Array to scan for non-corporeal entities outside of space-time, which is apparently where Captain Sisko now exists.”
STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007
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“From Q’s input,” Tuvok said while operating a console, “we should now be able to synchronize the Array to scan for non-corporeal entities outside of space-time, which is apparently where Captain Sisko now exists.”
STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007
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Again we become aware of how gracefully the sun and earth waltz with each other through the ballroom of space-time, eliciting awes and hallelujahs.
Wes Nisker: Worship The Sun! (Not Just The Son) Wes Nisker 2011
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By the time the club opened for dancing, dozens of impressively unattractive single men appeared from some sort of crack in the space-time continuum.
A Year Without Fear Scott Adams 2011
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Because the pattern changes across both space and time, the system is technically a space-time crystal, say the authors.
Weird ‘time crystals’ are made visible at last Elizabeth Gibney 2025
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