space-time

space-time
noun Date: 1915 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

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