SPACE
space, infinite
(noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; “they tested his ability to locate objects in space”; “the boundless regions of the infinite”
quad, space
(noun) (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
space, blank space, place
(noun) a blank area; “write your name in the space provided”
space, blank
(noun) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; “he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet”
space
(noun) one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff; “the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E”
space
(noun) an area reserved for some particular purpose; “the laboratory’s floor space”
space
(noun) an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); “the architect left space in front of the building”; “they stopped at an open space in the jungle”; “the space between his teeth”
distance, space
(noun) the interval between two times; “the distance from birth to death”; “it all happened in the space of 10 minutes”
space
(verb) place at intervals; “Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Space (plural Spaces)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Space is the 25037th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 992 individuals. Space is most common among White (82.46%) and Black/African American (13.1%) individuals.
Anagrams
• -scape, EPACs, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, scape
Etymology
Noun
space (countable and uncountable, plural spaces)
(heading) Of time.
(now, rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. [from 14thc.]
A specific (specified) period of time. [from 14thc.]
An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. [from 15thc.]
(heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
Distance between things. [from 14thc.]
Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes for or to do something). [from 14thc.]
Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this. [from 17thc.]
The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere; outer space. [from 17thc.]
The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. [from 20thc.]
(heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. [from 14thc.]
(music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. [from 15thc.]
A gap in text between words, lines etc, or a digital character used to create such a gap. [from 16thc.]
(metal type) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad). [from 17thc.]
A gap; an empty place. [from 17thc.]
(geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
(countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). [from 20thc.]
(countable, figuratively) A marketplace for goods or services.
Synonyms
• (free time): leisure time, spare time
• (specific period of time): duration, span; see also period
• (undefined period of time): spell, while; see also uncertain period
• (distance between things): break, gap; see also interspace
• (intervening contents of a volume): volume
• (space occupied by or intended for a person or thing): room, volume
• (area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing): place, spot, volume
• (area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum): outer space
• (gap between written characters): blank, gap, whitespace (graphic design)
• (metal type): quad, quadrat
• (set of points each uniquely specified by a set of coordinates)
• (personal freedom to think or be oneself)
• (state of mind one is in when daydreaming)
• (generalized construct or set in mathematics)
• (one of the five basic elements in Indian philosophy): ether
Hyponyms
• address space
• aerospace
• affine space
• airspace
• air space
• backspace
• Baire space
• Banach space
• base space
• breathing space
• bunkspace
• chemical space
• column space
• compact space
• conjugate space
• connected space
• crawlspace
• crawl space
• cyberspace
• danger space
• dark space
• dead-air space
• dead space
• deep space
• drift space
• dual space
• Einstein space
• em space
• en space
• 2-em space
• 3-em space
• Euclidean space
• exceptional space
• exotic four-space
• fishing space
• flat space
• floor space
• Foch space
• Fourier space
• FrĂ©chet space
• free space
• function space
• G space
• hair space
• half space
• Hausdorff space
• headspace
• Hilbert space
• homeomorphic space
• homogeneous space
• hydrospace
• hyperbolic space
• hyperspace
• image space
• inertial space
• inner product space
• interaction space
• interplanetary space
• interstellar space
• intervillous space
• isometric space
• joint space
• justifying space
• lacunary space
• Lindelöf space
• loading space
• mathematical space
• measurable space
• metacompact space
• metric space
• metrizable space
• Minkowski space
• Moore space
• mutton space
• namespace
• n space
• n-dimensional space
• normal space
• normed linear space
• null space
• NUT space
• object space
• open half space
• orbit space
• orthogonal space
• outer space
• paracompact space
• Pauli spin space
• Peano space
• perfectly separable space
• perivitelline space
• phase space
• Polish space
• popliteal space
• pore space
• probability space
• problem space
• projective space
• pseudospace
• quotient space
• reflexive Banach space
• regular space
• regular topological space
• Riemann space
• sample space
• separable space
• sequentially compact space
• shrinking space
• spin space
• state space
• strictly convex space
• subarachnoid space
• subspace
• symmetric space
• T0 space
• T1 space
• T3 space
• T4 space
• tangent space
• tensor space
• thick space
• thin space
• topological space
• total space
• triangulable space
• Tychonoff space
• uniform space
• unitary space
• vector space
• watch this space
• wave-vector space
• weakly complete space
• white space
• whitespace
• workspace
Verb
space (third-person singular simple present spaces, present participle spacing, simple past and past participle spaced)
(obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
(transitive) To set some distance apart.
To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
(transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
(intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
Anagrams
• -scape, EPACs, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, scape
Source: Wiktionary
Space, n. Etym: [OE. space, F. espace, from L. spatium space; cf. Gr. span. Cf. Expatiate.]
1. Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible. Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion. Locke.
2. Place, having more or They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in]. R. of Brunne. While I have time and space. Chaucer.
3. A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile. Put a space betwixt drove and drove. Gen. xxxii. 16.
4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space." R. of brunne. Nine times the space that measures day and night. Milton. God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance. Tillotson.
5. A short time; a while. [R.] "To stay your deadly strife a space." Spenser.
6. Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.] This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space. Chaucer.
7. (print.) (a) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters. (b) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books.
Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.
8. (Mus.)
Definition: One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc.
– Space line (Print.), a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead. Hansard.
– Space rule (Print.), a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.
Space, v. i. Etym: [Cf. OF. espacier, L. spatiari. See Space, n.]
Definition: To walk; to rove; to roam. [Obs.] And loved in forests wild to space. Spenser.
Space, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Spacong.] Etym: [Cf. F. espacer. See Space, n.] (Print.)
Definition: To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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