spatiotemporal
adjEtymology From spatio- + temporal.
1
Of, concerning, or existing in both space and time.
- 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
- geotemporal, temporospatial, chronospatial
- Derived terms
- nonspatiotemporal, spatiotemporal continuity, spatiotemporal database, spatiotemporal gene expression, spatiotemporality, spatiotemporally