SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spatial arrangement mean? 

• SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT (noun)
  The noun SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them

  Familiarity information: SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property possessed by an array of things that have space between them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

spacing; spatial arrangement

Hypernyms ("spatial arrangement" is a kind of...):

arrangement; placement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spatial arrangement"):

openness (without obstructions to passage or view)

distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)

dispersion; distribution (the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume)

compactness; concentration; denseness; density; tightness (the spatial property of being crowded together)

 Context examples 

A congenital defect in which there is an abnormal spatial arrangement of the internal thoraco-abdominal organs; this is in conjunction with many small accessory spleens instead of one.

(Heterotaxy Syndrome with Polysplenia, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital defect in which there is an abnormal spatial arrangement of the internal thoraco-abdominal organs; this is in conjunction the absence of a spleen.

(Heterotaxy Syndrome with Asplenia, NCI Thesaurus)

A developmental morphogenetic process that establishes the basic configuration of cellular organization necessary for further and accurate development of the spatial arrangement of embryonic tissue along the dorsal-ventral axis.

(Dorsal-Ventral Pattern Formation, NCI Thesaurus)

Testing devices for problems related to the presence of an inappropriate molecular geometry somewhere in the device (i.e., the spatial arrangement of atoms in a molecule and the chemical bonds that hold the atoms together).

(Device Structure Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Device problems related to the presence of an inappropriate molecular geometry somewhere in the device (i.e., the spatial arrangement of atoms in a molecule and the chemical bonds that hold the atoms together).

(Device Structure Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)