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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| TimeSpace | interaction between time and space |
| TimeSpace-Adjusting Technology | a hypothetical or science-fiction concept referring to devices, systems, or mechanisms capable of manipulating, distorting, or altering the fabric of space-time to achieve effects like time travel, faster-than-light transit, or spatial manipulation |
| Time-Space Convergence | Objects, people, and information travel further faster than ever before |
| "Shrinking World" | Because of TimeSpace convergence, the world seems smaller to us than it did to our ancestors |
| Space | A surface or volume, either empty and undifferentiated or containing features and activities that exhibit patterns. |
| Spatial | characteristics of geographic space and relationships of features/activities across space. |
| Features | literally anything that can be mapped… everything visible in this aerial photograph is a feature, each with its own characteristics and relationships to other features. |
| Distance | amount of separation between features across space. |
| Scale | Hierarchical relationship between different sized portions of Earth |
| Distribution | arrangement of features across space (density, concentration,pattern) |
| Density | Frequency with which a feature exists in a given unit of space |
| Concentration | proximity of features in a given unit of space |
| Pattern | Geometric arrangement of features in a given unit of space |
| Location | position of a feature or activity in space |
| Place | a location with meaning |
| Toponym | the name of a place |
| Region | an area of related places |
| Spatial Interaction | the movement of people, information, or physical objects/material between locations. |
| Human-Environment Interaction | the influence people and places have on earth other Like checking the weather app |