spacelike

/ˈspeɪslaɪk/

词干

后缀

-like: Resembling, having some of the characteristics of (used to form adjectives from nouns). · (dialectal) Used to form adverbs from adjectives or nouns; alternative of -ly.

From space +‎ -like. Compare spacely.

1having the properties of space
2(physics, of the interval between two events in spacetime) lying outside each other's light cone, so that no information can pass from one to the other
3(mathematics, of a four-vector) having a space component of greater magnitude than its time component multiplied by the speed of light