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spatial

  • /ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/ Canada, US, UK
  • /ˈspæɪ.ʃəl/ Australia, New Zealand

Rhymes with -eɪʃəl

Where it comes from

From Latin spatium + -al.

adjective spacial

  1. not comparable 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."
  2. not comparable, uncommon 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

Similar: spatio-

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: spacial, geographically, cadastral, geography, geospatial, areal, espace, surface, area, geographical, territorial, regional, geographic, territory, aerospace, satellite

adjective

Similar: spatio-

Translations

Every language

adj pertaining to space

Españolespacial
한국어공간적 gongganjeok, 공간의 gonggan-ui
日本語空間的 kūkanteki, 空間の kūkan no
中文空間的 /空间的 kōngjiān de
हिन्दीअंतरिक्ष antrikṣ, अंतरिक्षीय antrikṣīya
Portuguêsespacial
Françaisspatial
Deutschräumlich, Raum-
Italianospaziale
Ελληνικάδιαστημικός diastimikós, χωρικός chorikós
Românăspațial
Русскийпростра́нственный prostránstvennyj
Tiếng Việtkhông gian
العربيةفَضَائِيّ faḍāʔiyy
עבריתמֶרחָבִי

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@misc{spatial_2026,
  title = {spatial},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spatial},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}