namespace

For the Wiktionary's namespaces, see Wiktionary:Namespace.

English

Etymology

name +‎ space.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

Wikipedia namespace (plural namespaces)

1. (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.

Translations

conceptual space

• Czech: jmenný prostor (cs) m
• Dutch: naamruimte (nl)
• French: espace de nom (fr) m, espace de noms (fr) m
• German: Namensraum (de) m

• Hungarian: névtér (hu)
• Polish: przestrzeń nazw (pl) f
• Swedish: namnrymd (sv) c
• Turkish: ad uzayı (tr)

Verb

namespace (third-person singular simple present namespaces, present participle namespacing, simple past and past participle namespaced)

1. (computing) To categorize by placing into a namespace.
   • 2004, Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference‎

     Something I haven't captured in this schema is that the GEDCOM spec also says the structure is extensible; arbitrary namespaced elements may be inserted...

   • 2007, Jonathan Snook, Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge, Dan Webb, Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries‎

     Although the excessive namespacing might seem like a hassle, there's always a really quick way to create a shortcut.

   • 2007, Jon Arking, Professional Windows Live Programming‎

     SOAP adheres to extensive namespacing and attribute specification tags.

See also

• environment