time-spacen.adj.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Let. 10 Nov. (1959) IV. 690 An idea..contemplates the Alpha and the Omega (One-all; Finite-Infinite; Subject-Object; Mind-Matter; Substance-Form; Time-Space; Motion-Rest;..&c &c.).

1885 Nature 26 Mar. 481/1 Since this fourth dimension cannot be introduced into space, as commonly understood, we require a new kind of space for its existence, which we may call time-space.

1916 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 76 701 The line-element ds must be invariant for all transformations, and it entirely characterises the metric properties of the four-dimensional time-space.

1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags i. 86 Metaphysical war, war in time-space, war eternal..all war is nonsense.

1978 Church Times 15 Dec. 6/5 Using the discoveries of Einstein concerning the nature of time-space, Professor Macquarrie sketches in a theory of both individual and cosmic hope.

2002 K. Heusch tr. H. Fritzsch Curvature of Spacetime iii. 21 We can call it spacetime, or even timespace, but that is not of fundamental importance.

1905 W. M. Baker Elem. Dynamics (ed. 2) ii. 22 If the time-space curve of a moving point is drawn, the velocity of the point at any time is equal to the slope of the curve at the point on it corresponding to the given time.

1931 Monist 41 620 In a sense unified science is physics in its largest aspect, a tissue of laws expressing time-space linkages.

1951 N. M. Gunn Well at World's End xxviii. 264 Time and space are aspects of the one time-space continuum, according to the latest mode of scientific utterance.

1968 D. L. Clarke Analyt. Archaeol. viii. 327 Strongly localized and smaller time-space entities..by contrast suggest culture group transforms in time depth.

2007 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 18 June (Guide) 4 Later episodes deal with an unstable time-space rift.