spatio-temporaladj.
/ˌspeɪʃɪəʊˈtɛmpərəl/ Belonging to both space and time.
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the world > space > [adjective] > space-time
space-time1893
spatio-temporal1900
spatial-temporal1903
spatio-temporalized1940
1900 B. Russell Crit. Expos. Philos. Leibniz v. 57 Two things could not co-exist in one spatio-temporal point.
1917 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God xiv. 267 Even if we make space and time the principium individuationis and try to reduce the formal distinctness of individuals to difference of position in the spatio-temporal series.
1920 A. N. Whitehead Concept of Nature viii. 173 The spatio-temporal structure of events.
1921 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XII. 341/2 Spatio-temporal co-ordinates.
1925 A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World v. 128 The whole spatio-temporal world.
a1931 G. H. Mead Philos. of Act (1938) ii. xv. 232 Physical identity with distant objects gives functional contemporaneity, while the acts that are going on involve the actual concrete spatiotemporal happenings.
1954 A. J. Ayer Philos. Ess. i. 3 Spatio~temporal points are individuals,..but not everyone would allow it to be said that they existed.
1975 I. Stewart Concepts Mod. Math. xiv. 208 Depress your foot, and move slightly forward in time, thereby dragging a small loop of string with you in the time direction, though leaving most of the knot in its original spatio-temporal state.
1979 A. R. Peacocke Creation & World of Sci. i. i. 24 A more general view that reality consists of two orders..: the natural/the supernatural; the spatio~temporal/the eternal; [etc.].
Derivatives
ˌspatio-tempoˈrality n. the quality or fact of being spatio-temporal.
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the world > space > [noun] > space-time continuum > making or being spatial and temporal
spatio-temporality1920
spatio-temporalization1940
1920 S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity I. 269 A category which arises not so much out of the character of spatio-temporality taken as a whole..as out of the ‘relation’..between the spatial and the temporal elements in any space-time.
1940 Mind 49 185 The qualitative content must vanish with the abstraction of its spatio-temporality.
ˌspatio-temporaliˈzation n. the fact of making or investing with spatio-temporal qualities or relations.
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the world > space > [noun] > space-time continuum > making or being spatial and temporal
spatio-temporality1920
spatio-temporalization1940
1940 Mind 49 324 Evidently the qualification is a function of the spatio-temporalization.
1964 P. Meadows in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. xxviii. 446 They sought to discern in the sweeping spatio-temporalizations of historic experience..the unfolding ‘form’..beyond appearance.
ˌspatio-ˈtemporalized adj.
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the world > space > [adjective] > space-time
space-time1893
spatio-temporal1900
spatial-temporal1903
spatio-temporalized1940
1940 Mind 49 185 It remains possible to take the quality as the spatio-temporalized appearance of the real action of the ‘other’ with the ‘self’.
ˌspatio-ˈtemporally adv. in space and time, with reference to both space and time.
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the world > space > [adverb] > in space and time
spatio-temporally1920
1920 S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity I. 250 Relation..which unites things, is outside each of them spatially (or rather spatio-temporally).
1923 C. D. Broad Sci. Thought x. 403 Science regards the ultimate scientific objects as being spatio-temporally homogeneous.
1959 P. F. Strawson Individuals i. i. 34 Since spatio-temporally continuous existence is..observed neither in the case where we are inclined to speak of qualitative identity nor in the case where we are inclined to speak of numerical identity, by what right do we suppose that there is a fundamental difference between these cases?
1980 A. Quinton Francis Bacon vii. 62 Causes may be spatio-temporally remote from their effects.
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