spatiotemporal

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adjective

Of, concerning, or existing in both space and time.

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Meanings

adjectivespatiotemporal (comparative more spatiotemporal, superlative most spatiotemporal)

comparative more spatiotemporal · superlative most spatiotemporal · alternative spatio-temporal

  1. Of, concerning, or existing in both space and time.

    It allows that the mind may not be able to exist without a body and that, being spatiotemporal, it possesses properties, such as shape and location.²⁵

    2019, Susan Schneider, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Princeton University Press, page 141
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    Physical existence, thus, is essentially spatiotemporal ubiety; and that which has or lacks ubiety, that is, is or is not present at some place in space at some time, is always some what or kind—which may be a kind of substance, or of property, or of relation, or of activity, or of change, or of state, and so on.

    1956, Sidney Hook, editor, American Philosophers At Work: The Philosophic Scene in the United States
  2. Of or concerning spacetime.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveexisting in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinspatium
  2. Englishspatio-
  3. Englishtemporal
  4. Englishspatiotemporal

From spatio- + temporal.

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Translations

Czech časoprostorový
  • časoprostorovýof or concerning spacetime
French spatiotemporel, spatiotemporel
  • spatiotemporelof or concerning space and time
  • spatiotemporelof or concerning spacetime
Polish czasoprzestrzenny
  • czasoprzestrzennyof or concerning spacetime
Portuguese espaciotemporal, espaçotemporal
  • espaciotemporalof or concerning spacetime
  • espaçotemporalof or concerning spacetime

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APA

spatiotemporal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spatiotemporal

MLA

“spatiotemporal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spatiotemporal. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spatiotemporal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spatiotemporal.

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