Etymology

spacetime

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Today it means: The four-dimensional continuum of the three spatial dimensions plus time. Full definition →

German Raumzeit
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  1. German · calque ofRaumzeit
  2. English todayspacetime

From space + time, as a calque of German Raumzeit, introduced in this sense by Hermann Minkowski. First appears in print c. 1893 in the Philosophical Review.

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