spatial

Adjective

spatial (not comparable)

1. 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."1879, William James, “The Spatial Quale”, in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, volume 5
   • The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist
2. (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...1964, Food Research Institute Studies, volume 4, number 2, page 123
   • By following the roadmap suggested by Godunov himself, the next step in order to reduce truncation errors in a context of large gradients should be to set up moving mesh methods; a suggestion from the man who created the scheme by means of which were achieved computations of the Apollo spatial...2013, Laurent Gosse, Computing Qualitatively Correct Approximations of Balance Laws, →ISBN