What is "spatial"

Usage examples of "spatial".

In any case, once a thing--whether by point or standard or any other means--measures succession, it must measure according to time: this number appraising movement degree by degree must, therefore, if it is to serve as a measure at all, be something dependent upon time and in contact with it: for, either, degree is spatial, merely--the beginning and end of the Stadium, for example--or in the only alternative, it is a pure matter of Time: the succession of early and late is stage of Time, Time ending upon a certain Now or Time beginning from a Now.

Wherever anything in the pure spatial adjacency of physical things remains inexplicable, resort is had to hypothetical pictures whose content consists once more of nothing but spatially extended and spatially adjacent items.

To keep a spatial metaphor, the approximative character of which I have already stressed, I shall say that the signification of the myth is constituted by a sort of constantly moving turnstile which presents alternately the meaning of the signifier and its form, a language-object and a metalanguage, a purely signifying and a purely imagining consciousness.

Jens admits that the artificial phosphenes do not create highly defined shapes, but it is possible to identify objects and their spatial orientation.

That seething, half-luminous cloud background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial, and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.

But while the subtests that measuredreasoning, abstract thinking, and spatial relationships were superior, the tests requiring rote memory were very poor.

Examples include the spatial organization of army ant raids, the regulation of numbers of worker ants on odour trails, and certain aspects of the thermoregulation of nests.

Shelliak, Romulans, Ansata terrorists, Gomtuu, Tallarians, two-dimensional creatures, and more spatial anomalies than she could shake a stick at, not to mention regular visits from Q, Sonya began to grow weary of it.

When Tupelov at last emerged from the flagship, alone, he could see the vast, curved cagework of the Taj soaring away from him in at least three spatial dimensions.

And that safety was illusory for the racking jars of the spatial see-saw might disintegrate La Cucaracha in seconds.

Borges assigns to that distortion of classification that prevents us from applying it, to that picture that lacks all spatial coherence, is a precise region whose name alone constitutes for the West a vast reservoir of Utopias.

There is a finite probability, as I see it, that the train will eventually pass from the nonspatial part of the network, which it now occupies, back to the spatial part.

Twenty centuries after Euclid, the mathematician Bernhard Riemann took a great leap in 1854, liberating the idea of dimensions from our spatial senses.

From this perspective, even though strings have spatial extent, the question of their composition is without any content.

In order to function, any supranormal spatial phenomenon must extend through known space and time to another dimensional plane.