spatial extension

collocation in English

meaningsofspatialandextension

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spatial
adjective
uk
/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/us
/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/
relating to the position, area, and size ...
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extension
noun
uk
/ɪkˈsten.ʃən/us
/ɪkˈsten.ʃən/
the fact of reaching, stretching, or continuing; the act of adding to something in order to make it bigger ...
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(Definition ofspatialandextensionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Descartes expressed this by suggesting that humans were composed of two kinds of matter, one which hasspatialextension, and another which thinks.
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The sonority covering the whole stage is contrasted with a sound of a lesserspatialextension, performed by the centrally positioned piano and harp.
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In some ways, the orthographic drawing, which describesspatialextension, also treats material only as that which is not form.
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Moreover, whilespatialextensionmight be considered as no more than an attribute of the material world, time also appears to be bound up with perception itself.
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As we show on the homogeneous cumulative flow the mode l 4 has a largespatialextensionand does not require a very stretched mesh compare to the base flow.
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And given that the hotel has an infinite number of full rooms, each of which occupies some finitespatialextensions, the hotel extends infinitely far into distant space.
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In this way a wave of limitedspatialextensionhas been created, following the explanation given above.
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In ionic compounds there arise characteristic distances between ion neighbors from which thespatialextensionand the ionic radius of individual ions may be derived.
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And since nothing can be more minute, our indivisible ideas are adequate representations of the most minute parts ofspatialextension.
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Finally,spatialextensionof tubules derived from renal stem/progenitor cells is obtained within a perfusion container filled with an artificial interstitium made of polyester fleece.
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And the only objects traveling with the speed required are atomic particles, yet whose spatial extensions are too small to allow a direct measurement of contraction.
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