spatial relation

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spatial relation - the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage"

position

relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

occlusion - (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed

lean, list, leaning, tilt, inclination - the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"

gradient, slope - the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree gradient"

placement, arrangement - the spatial property of the way in which something is placed; "the arrangement of the furniture"; "the placement of the chairs"

point of view - the spatial property of the position from which something is observed

coincidence - the quality of occupying the same position or area in space; "he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs"

dead center, dead centre - the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque

centrality - the property of being central

marginality - the property of being marginal or on the fringes

anteriority - the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head

posteriority - the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end

externality, outwardness - the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of the world"

inwardness - the quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the body's organs"

malposition, misplacement - faulty position

northernness - the property of being to the north

southernness - the property of being to the south

horizontality - the quality of being parallel to the horizon; "houses with a pronounced horizontality"

verticality, verticalness, erectness, uprightness - position at right angles to the horizon

slot - a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable; "he developed a version of slot grammar"

elbow room, room, way - space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"

direction - the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves; "he checked the direction and velocity of the wind"

angular position - relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established

References in periodicals archive ?

The system is able to learn good models from both the spatial relation and mobile manipulation data sets.

Approaching the symbol grounding problem with probabilistic graphical models

Understanding the spatial relation between the image, its location and the viewer, can be key to understanding and experiencing its theological import.

Devotion by Design, Italian Altarpieces before 1500

After the subsequent introduction of the figure, the spatial relation between the two is expressed by a simultaneous classifier predicate construction.

Introduction: spatial case

spatial relation is not an entity in our visual field.

Quotes

As a dancer, I crave live presence, the immediate experience of human proportion and spatial relation. Not eyes only, but my kinetically inclined, sensible body next to the object is what makes for a completed encounter, or one that, incomplete, rouses the full length of my nervous system to continuous ripple.

Around the world toward Muscle Shoals

For the vertical groups, the heights of the objects were small relative to the heights of the objects as seen from a horizontal perspective, resulting in map-like views in which the spatial relation between objects remained relatively constant across viewpoints.

Switching imagined viewpoints: the effects of viewing angle and layout size

The nodes of that graph represent the domain objects while the edges carry the spatial relation between object pairs.

Efficient Content-Based Indexing of Large Image Databases

Each of the burial types is subjected to analysis in terms of five characteristics: physical features, cemetery organization, spatial relation to the settlement, mode of burial, and the funeral assemblages, though the primary emphasis in the book is on the physical features of the tombs.

Burial Patterns and Cultural Diversity in Late Bronze Age Canaan

Numerous conceptual problems are certainly made a lot easier if we are allowed to think of heaven as another dimension alongside our world; it is particularly hard to envisage any form of human survival that precludes spatial relation. But what does it add to say that instead of being something like a parallel universe, it is not only the space of God himself but superimposed upon our own?

Divine Presence in the World. A Critical Analysis of the Notion of Divine Omnipresence

Most World-Wide Web documents, for example, are presented as a series of pages without any spatial relation. Some believe it advantageous for the user not to have to know a certain node's location in the conceptual or geographical space, but this hides the structure of the hyperspace.

On the design of hyper "spaces."(Designing Hypermedia Applications)

The stimuli show two or more entities in spatial relation to one another which geometrically speaking are configurations of inclusion, surface contact and circumvention and which functionally are containment and support relations.

On the expression of spatial relations in Ardesen-Laz

It has been reported that instead of classifier predicates that allow for analogical representations, some signed languages can use "relational lexemes" (Arik and Wilbur 2008) (also called "prepositions" in Emmorey [2002] or simply "relationals" in Arik [2009]) to indicate the spatial relation of entities with respect to each other.

Locative expressions in signed languages: a view from Turkish Sign Language (TID)

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