MEANING
To give something a location or represent it through positions and relationships in space.
Use it for
mapping an abstract relationship into space; giving a concept a location in a diagram; analyzing how an idea is organized spatially; distinguishing spatial representation from a purely temporal accountNames giving a spatial form or location to something, including an abstract relationship. Writing functions: Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- spatialize time
- spatialize a concept
- spatialize social relations
On the page
The diagram spatializes time by placing successive events along a horizontal axis.
The installation spatializes memory through rooms that visitors can enter in different orders.
Word forms
- Base
- spatialize
- Past tense
- spatialized
- Past participle
- spatialized
- Present participle
- spatializing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- spatialize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are spatializing
- Present perfect
- have/has spatialized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been spatializing
- Past
- spatialized
- Past continuous
- was/were spatializing
- Past perfect
- had spatialized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been spatializing
- Future
- will spatialize
- Future continuous
- will be spatializing
- Future perfect
- will have spatialized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been spatializing
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Usage notes
Transitive: spatialize, spatializes, spatialized, spatialized, spatializing; future will spatialize. UK spatialise is an alias. Register: academic. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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