spacetime

See also: space-time

English

the 'fabric' of spacetime

Alternative forms

space-time

Etymology

From space +‎ time, as a calque of German Raumzeit, introduced in this sense by Hermann Minkowski.

Noun

spacetime (countable and uncountable, plural spacetimes)

(uncountable, physics) The four-dimensional continuum of the three spatial dimensions plus time.
An event is a point in spacetime, specified by the coordinates x, y, z, and t.
(physics) An n-dimensional continuum consisting of dimensions of both space and time. Normally spacetime is considered as having 4 dimensions (x, y, z, t), but higher-dimensional spacetimes are often encountered in theoretical physics, e.g. the 5-dimensional spacetime of Kaluza-Klein theory or the 11 dimensions of spacetime in M-theory.
a Minkowski spacetime
a 5-dimensional spacetime
(relativity) A specific region of the universe with mathematically different properties than the surrounding spacetime. Synonymous with "metric" within the context of general relativity.
a Schwarzschild spacetime
a Reissner-Nordström spacetime

Coordinate terms

temporospatial
spatiotemporal

Derived terms

spacetime metric
spacetime physics
spacetime singularity

Translations

four dimensional continuum

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: زَمَكَان‎ m (zamakān)
Egyptian Arabic: سبيس-تايم‎ (speys-taim)
Armenian: տարածաժամանակային կոնտինուում (taracažamanakayin kontinuum)
Asturian: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
Basque: please add this translation if you can
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: пространство-време (prostranstvo-vreme)
Catalan: espai-temps
Chinese:
Cantonese: 時空, 时空 (si⁴ hung¹)
Mandarin: 時空／时空 (zh) (shí-kōng)
Czech: časoprostor (cs) m
Danish: rumtid
Dutch: ruimte-tijd, ruimtetijd, tijd-ruimte, tijdruimte
Esperanto: spactempo
Estonian: aegruum
Finnish: aika-avaruus
French: espace-temps (fr)
Galician: espazo-tempo m
German: Raumzeit (de) f
Greek: χωροχρόνος (el) m (chorochrónos)
Hebrew: מרחב-זמן‎
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: téridő (hu)
Icelandic: tímarúm n
Ido: spacotempo
Italian: spaziotempo (it) m, spaziotemporalità (it) f
Japanese: 時空 (ja) (じくう, jikū)
Korean: 시공간 (ko) (sigonggan)
Latvian: laiktelpa f
Lithuanian: erdvėlaikis (lt)
Macedonian: време-простор m (vreme-prostor)
Malayalam: സ്ഥലകാലം (sthalakālaṃ)
Marathi: अवकाशकाल (avkāśkāl)
Norwegian: romtid
Persian: فضازمان‎ (fazâ-zamân)
Polish: czasoprzestrzeń (pl) f
Portuguese: espaço-tempo (pt) m
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: spațiu-timp n
Russian: простра́нство-вре́мя (ru) n (prostránstvo-vrémja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: просторвријеме n, просторвреме n
Roman: prostorvrijeme n, prostorvreme n
Slovak: priestoročas, časopriestor
Slovene: prôstor-čàs m
Spanish: espacio-tiempo m
Swedish: rumtid (sv) c
Tagalog: espasyo-panahon
Tamil: வெளிநேரம் (veḷinēram)
Thai: กาล-อวกาศ
Turkish: uzayzaman (tr)
Urdu: زمان و مکاں‎
Vietnamese: không-thời gian (vi)

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