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spa⋅tial

   [spey-shuhl]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to space.
2. existing or occurring in space; having extension in space.
Also, spacial.

Origin:
1840–50; < L spati(um) space + -al 1
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spa·tial also spa·cial     (spā'shəl)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Of, relating to, involving, or having the nature of space.


[From Latin spatium, space.]

spa'ti·al'i·ty (spā'shē-āl'ĭ-tē) n., spa'tial·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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spatial 
1847, from L. spatium + adj. suffix -al; formed in Eng. as an adjective to space, to go with temporal.

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spatial

adjective
pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space; "the first dimension to concentrate on is the spatial one"; "spatial ability"; "spatial awareness"; "the spatial distribution of the population" [ant: nonspatial] 

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Spatial

Spa"cial\, a. See Spatial.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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