Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or existing in both space and time.
- adjective Of or relating to space-time.
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- adjective Of, concerning, or existing in both
space andtime . - adjective Of or concerning
spacetime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration
- adjective of or relating to space and time together (having both spatial extension and temporal duration)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A dual optical/electrical stimulation and recording probe for high spatiotemporal resolution studies of neural microcircuits.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Such real-time ratioing revealed Ca2+, Na+, and pH signals14 inside single living cells, often with unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution.
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A dual optical/electrical stimulation and recording probe for high spatiotemporal resolution studies of neural microcircuits.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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– The events described in (2) occurred during a particular interval of time, but without spatiotemporal uniqueness, e.g., “once, during the year 1859, the average height of European males was 1.8 m.”
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According to Orch OR, under normal conditions in an intact, healthy brain, consciousness occurs as frames or snapshots extending through multiple spatiotemporal levels from networks to neurons to microtubules to quantum forces, down to and including Planck scale geometry.
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To traverse spatiotemporal continuum and warn his dad to take better care of himself.
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Criticism of utopias that slight either collective or personal dimensions is the starting point from which David Harvey calls for a comprehensive “spatiotemporal” or “dialectical” utopianism.
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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This is of course a scary path to walk down, fraught with numerous incarnations of the Anthropic monster, but is a necessary demon to face in a theory where the fundamental parameters vary in different spatiotemporal regions of the multiverse.
Making Extra Dimensions Disappear Sean 2009
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The Black Iron Prison is not the material world; rather it is the spiritual one, metaphysical in the sense of psychological and cultural epiphenomena certainly -- I have no doubt of that -- but ... metaphysical also in the sense of trans-spatiotemporal ... supernatural, paranormal?
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007
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In biology, spatiotemporal signalling may give these kind of interfaces.
Adaptationism 2007
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