space-time
noun
ˈspās-ˈtīm 
ˈspās-ˌtīm
1
: a system of one temporal and three spatial coordinates by which any physical object or event can be located
called also space-time continuum
2
: the whole or a portion of physical reality determinable by a usually four-dimensional coordinate system
also
: the properties characteristic of such an order
Examples of space-time in a Sentence
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Jocelyn Read, a professor of Physics at California State University Fullerton peers through a model of the space-time around a black holes at her office at CSUF in Fullerton on Thursday, May 16, 2024.
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Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024
This hair has to do with the rate of change, or the gradient, of space-time’s curvature at the horizon.
—Gaurav Khanna, The Conversation, 15 May 2024
As the camera reaches the speed of light, the accretion disc becomes more distorted as space-time warps.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
For four years, its array of three satellites will tumble through space in an equilateral triangle some million miles across, bouncing lasers off the golden cubes kept in perfect free fall within each craft to feel for ripples in space-time.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
The new approach measures the region of space-time that’s significantly curved by the proton.
—Charlie Wood, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024
China has similar plans to upgrade its space-time system by 2035.
—Chris Buckley, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
In a 2020 paper, Boyle, Flicker and the late Madeline Dickens showed that aperiodic tilings appear in the space-time geometry of those models.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024
And space-time itself may not really be a fundamental notion.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024
This hair has to do with the rate of change, or the gradient, of space-time’s curvature at the horizon.
—Gaurav Khanna, The Conversation, 15 May 2024
As the camera reaches the speed of light, the accretion disc becomes more distorted as space-time warps.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 7 May 2024
For four years, its array of three satellites will tumble through space in an equilateral triangle some million miles across, bouncing lasers off the golden cubes kept in perfect free fall within each craft to feel for ripples in space-time.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
The new approach measures the region of space-time that’s significantly curved by the proton.
—Charlie Wood, WIRED, 14 Apr. 2024
China has similar plans to upgrade its space-time system by 2035.
—Chris Buckley, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
In a 2020 paper, Boyle, Flicker and the late Madeline Dickens showed that aperiodic tilings appear in the space-time geometry of those models.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024
And space-time itself may not really be a fundamental notion.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
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“Space-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/space-time. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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