The Collaborative International Dictionary
space-time \space-time\, n. the four-dimensional coordinate system in which all physical objects of the known universe are located, and in which all physical events occur; it consists of three spatial dimensions and one time dimension; -- also called the space-time continuum.
Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) (alternative form of spacetime English)
WordNet
n. the 4-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located [syn: space-time continuum]
Usage examples of "space-time".
In our space-time, the acausal eschaton particle is always in the future, rather like the singularity inside a black hole.
Whereas here we have come to the primal Silence antecedent to sound, containing sound as potential, and to the Void antecedent to things, containing as potential the whole of space-time and its galaxies.
They were rather like a cross between cladograms and Feynman space-time diagrams, and were used to keep cause-and-effect events from becoming entangled.
At zero temperature, the Bell Continuum becomes coextensive with space-time.
Every space-time descriptor is relative to the descriptors of the observer.
He seemed to know what was coming--the monstrons burst of Walpurgis-rhythm in whose cosmic timbre would be concentrated all the primal, ultimate space-time seethings which lie behind the massed spheres of matter and sometimes break forth in measured reverberations that penetrate faintly to every layer of entity and give hideous significance throughout the worlds to certain dreaded periods.
Searcher could exit the ergosphere along a path that pops out into another space-time, or another time in our own space.
Think of the ergosphere as a tight-stretched skin of space-time, across which waves wash.
It goes something like this: The extensional area we call space-time is probably an illusion of the senses.
It was bizarre occurrences in the shifting fields of space-time like the Jansky Singularity that were the real hazards.
Not PF Flyers, the shoes that would have allowed me to run faster, jump higher, and sculpt the froth of space-time, but just an old pair of Keds with frayed laces.
Space-time, the Second Level of Complexity, proclaimed its noumenon in the whine of stars, the rumble of planets, the transcendent crackle and gush of the uncoiling sun.
Using terabytes of qubit quantum data and applying relativistic Coulomb field transforms to these mind-consciousness holographic wavefunctions, it was quickly discovered that human consciousness could be quantum-teleported to points in space-time where entangled-pair wavefronts already existed.
There was a hint - a probably false-signal resonation in the skein of space-time behind them - that there might be a craft following them, but then it was not unusual for other civilisations to follow ships of the Zetetic Elench.
Caliphate mathematical technique to establish a metastable equilibrium that allows convex regions with real and virtual histories to coexist in four-dimensional space-time, while remaining both topologically distinct and contiguous in five-space.