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I am trying to describe a dataset which has three measurements:

  • The location of the particle (spatial)
  • The change over time (temporal)
  • The size of the particle (UNKNOWN)

Is there an equivalent term for size?

Furthermore, spatiotemporal appears to be a recognised term, or rarely temporospatial. Is there a way to fit size in, either with just one factor, or with both i.e. Spatiosizal, size-temporal, spatiotemporal-size?

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    What words have you tried or found that are close? Dimensional?
    – Hank
    Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 17:18
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    spatial covers size and position. Whether that solves your problem, or means you have a new one because you don't have a term specifically to location (there's a sense of local that means that, though it's maybe too overloaded) depends on what you need this term for.
    – Jon Hanna
    Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 17:23
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    Just to make sure we're on the same page, spatial does not mean 'location' and temporal does not mean 'change over time'. Both spatial and temporal are classification terms that include those types of measurements. You have 2 spatial measurements and 1 temporal. If you switched to nouns you could be measuring: locality, scale/magnitude, delta(t).
    – BenL
    Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 20:03
  • Can you use scalar? A quantity, such as mass, length, or speed, that is completely specified by its magnitude and has no direction.
    – Yosef Baskin
    Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 20:26
  • Length or volume.
    – aparente001
    Commented Feb 24, 2017 at 5:29

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The size of the particle is the volumetric or dimensional measurement.

From Oxford Living Dictionaries:

volumetric

ADJECTIVE

1 Relating to the measurement of volume.

or

dimensional

ADJECTIVE

1 Relating to measurements or dimensions.

Sample from Oxford:

‘Traditionally, two types of experiments have been used to study swelling behavior of cartilage, including measurements of volumetric swelling and dimensional swelling of cartilage.’

(emphasis added)

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