spatiotemporal

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spatio- + temporal

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spatiotemporal (comparative more spatiotemporal, superlative most spatiotemporal)

  1. Of, concerning, or existing in both space and time.
    • 1956, Sidney Hook, editor, American Philosophers At Work: The Philosophic Scene in the United States:
      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.
  2. Of or concerning spacetime.

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  • spatiotemporal continuity
  • spatiotemporal database
  • spatiotemporal gene expression

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