spatial

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space

   the first dimension to concentrate on is the spatial one

2. 2
   adj

   Pertaining to (the dimension of) space.

   In the one case these are spatial, in the other chromatic, in the third moral; and would be what the Germans call intensiv in a fourth case, if I were to say, "Camphor smells milder than ammonia."

3. 3
   adj

   Pertaining to (outer) space.

   It was a land that could no longer be seriously described as underdeveloped, a land that has been able to achieve remarkably high rates of growth in its industrial production and gross national product since 1928, and a land that would shortly send into outer space the first man-made, and eventually also the first manned, spatial vehicle.

Etymology

From Latin spatium + -al.