space

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: spās, IPA: /speɪs/, SAMPA: /speIs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪs

Etymology

From Old French espace.

Noun

space (countable and uncountable; plural spaces)

1. The intervening contents of a volume.
2. (uncountable) Space occupied by or intended for a person or thing.
3. (countable) An area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing.
4. A while.
5. The volume beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a relative vacuum.
6. The volume beyond the Kármán line that lies 100km above mean sea level of the Earth.
7. A gap between written or printed letters, numbers, characters, or lines; a blank.
   1. In digital text, a character representing a space ( ).
8. (letterpress typography) 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).
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v 2, pp. 240–41:

     If it be only a Single Letter or two that drops, he thruſts the end of his Bodkin between every Letter of that Word, till he comes to a Space: and then perhaps by forcing thoſe Letters closer, he may have room to put in another Space or a Thin Space; which if he cannot do, and he finds the Space ſtand Looſe in the Form; he with the Point of his Bodkin picks the Space up and bows it a little; which bowing makes the Letters on each ſide of the Space keep their parallel diſtance; for by its Spring it thruſts the Letters that were cloſed with the end of the Bodkin to their adjunct Letters, that needed no cloſing.

   • 1979, Marshall Lee, Bookmaking, p 110:

     Horizontal spacing is further divided into multiples and fractions of the em. The multiples are called quads. The fractions are called spaces.

   • 2005, Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam, Type & Typography, 2nd ed, p 91:

     Other larger spaces – known as quads – were used to space out lines.

9. (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a set of coordinates; the number of coordinates specifying a point and the number of mutually perpendicular axes along which the coordinates lie are the same, and that is the number of dimensions of the space.
10. One's personal freedom to think or be oneself.
11. The state of mind one is in when daydreaming.
12. (mathematics) a generalized construct or set, the members of which have certain properties in common; often used in combination with the name of a particular mathematician
13. (Indian philosophy) One of the five basic elements.
14. interval of time
    • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, BBC Sport:

      But their lead lasted just 10 minutes before Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe both headed home in the space of two minutes to wrestle back control.

Quotations

• For more examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

Synonyms

• (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):

Derived terms

• (typography): em space, 2-em space, 3-em space, en space, hair space, mutton space, nut space, thin space, thick space
• pseudospace

Related terms

Terms related to "space"

address space aerospace affine space airspace, air space backspace Baire space Banach space base space breathing space chemical space column space compact space conjugate space connected space crawl space, crawlspace cyberspace danger space dark space dead-air space dead space deep space double-space drift space dual space Einstein space espace Euclidean space exceptional space exotic four-space fishing space flat space Foch space Fourier space Fréchet 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 interspace interstellar space intervillous space isometric space joint space justifying space lacunary space Lindelöf space loading space measurable space metacompact space metric space metrizable space Minkowski space Moore space multispace namespace n space

n-dimensional space normal space normed linear space null 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 quotient space reflexive Banach space regular space regular topological space Riemann space sample space separable space sequentially compact space shrinking space single-space space age, Space Age space alien space attenuation space bar space biology space blanket spaceborne space cadet space capsule space centrode space charge space cloth space communication space cone space coordinate spacecraft space current space curve spaced space defence, space defense spaced-out space environment space factor spacefaring space fixed reference space flight space frame spaceful space group space guidance space heater space hopper space junk space lattice spaceless spacelike spaceman space medicine

space mission space motion space navigation space out space perception space permeability space polar coordinate spaceport space power system space probe space processing space quadrature space quantization spacer space race space reconnaissance space reddening space request space research space satellite space science spaceship space shuttle space sickness space simulator space station space suit space suppression space technology space tourism space velocity space walk spaceward space wave space weapon space weather space writer space-time spacey spacious spin space state space strictly convex space subarachnoid space subspace sunspace suprasternal symmetric space T0 space T1 space T3 space T4 space tangent space tensor space three-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

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )

Translations

intervening contents of a volume

Arabic: فراغ (fará:ğ), مكان (ar) Breton: egor m. Chinese: Mandarin: 空間 (zh), 空间 (zh) (kōngjiān) Dutch: ruimte (nl) f. Finnish: tila (fi) French: espace (fr) m. German: Raum (de) m., Platz (de) m. Greek: χώρος (xóros) m., διάστημα (ðiástima) n. Hebrew: נפח (he) (néfakh) m. Hungarian: tér (hu), hely (hu) Ido: spaco (io) Italian: spazio (it) m. Japanese: 空間 (ja) (kūkan) Korean: 공간 (Gonggan) Latin: spatium (la) Lithuanian: erdvė f.

Macedonian: простор (mk) (próstor) m. Maltese: spazju m. Persian: فضا (fa) (fazâ), مکان  (fa) Polish: przestrzeń (pl) f. Portuguese: espaço (pt) m. Romanian: spațiu (ro) n. Russian: пространство (ru) (prostránstvo) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: про́стор (sh) m. Roman: próstor (sh) m. Spanish: espacio (es) m. Swahili: nafasi (sw) Swedish: rymd (sv) c., utrymme (sv) n. Tajik: фазо (tg) Turkish: boşluk (tr) Urdu: فضاء (ur) Vietnamese: khoảng (vi), chỗ (vi)

uncountable: space occupied by or intended for a person or thing

Czech: místo (cs) n. Finnish: tila (fi), paikka (fi) French: espace (fr) m. German: Platz (de) m. Hungarian: hely (hu) Italian: spazio (it) m. Japanese: 空間 (ja) (kūkan), 場所 (ja) (basho) Luhya: enafasi

Macedonian: простор (mk) (próstor) m. Portuguese: espaço (pt) m. Romanian: spațiu (ro) n. Russian: пространство (ru) (prostránstvo) n. Swahili: nafasi (sw)

countable: an area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing

Finnish: tila (fi), paikka (fi) French: place (fr) f. Hungarian: hely (hu) Italian: posto (it) m. Japanese: 空間 (ja) (kūkan), 場所 (ja) (basho)

Macedonian: простор (mk) (próstor) m. Portuguese: espaço (pt) m., lugar (pt) m. Russian: пространство (ru) (prostránstvo) n. Swahili: nafasi (sw)

area beyond atmosphere of planets

Arabic: فضاء (ar) (faDaa') m. Breton: egor m. Burmese: အာကာသ (my) (akatha.) Chinese: Mandarin: 太空 (zh) (tàikōng), 宇宙 (zh) (yǔzhòu), 空間 (zh), 空间 (zh) (kōngjiān) Czech: vesmír (cs) m. Dutch: ruimte (nl) f. Estonian: maailmaruum Finnish: avaruus (fi) French: espace (fr) m. German: Weltraum (de) m., All (de) n., Weltall (de) n. Greek: διάστημα (el) (ðiástima) n. Hebrew: חלל (he) (khalál) m. Hungarian: űr (hu), világűr (hu) Icelandic: geimur (is) m. Indonesian: antariksa (id) Italian: spazio (it) m. Japanese: 宇宙 (ja) (うちゅう, uchū) Korean: 우주 (ko) (uju) (宇宙 (ko))

Lithuanian: kosmosas m. Macedonian: вселена (mk) (vsélena) f. Norwegian: rom (no) n., verdensrom (no) n. Polish: przestrzeń (pl) f. Portuguese: espaço (pt) m. Romanian: spațiu (ro) n. Russian: космос (ru) (kósmos) m., пространство (ru) (prostránstvo) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: све̏мӣр (sh) m., васио́на (sh) f., васељена (sh) f., космос (sh) m. Roman: svȅmīr (sh) m., vasióna (sh) f., vaseljena (sh) f., kosmos (sh) m. Spanish: espacio (es) m. Swahili: nafasi (sw) Swedish: rymd (sv) c., världsrymd (sv) c. Telugu: అంతరిక్షము (te) (antarikshamu) Turkish: uzay (tr) Urdu: خلاء (khalaa) m. Vietnamese: không gian (vi) (空間 (vi)), không trung (vi), khoảng không (vi), vũ trụ (vi) (宇宙 (vi))

gap between written characters

Czech: mezera (cs) f. Dutch: spatie (nl) m. Esperanto: spaceto (eo) Estonian: tühik (et) Finnish: väli (fi) French: espace (fr) m., blanc (fr) m. German: Leerzeichen n., Leerstelle f. Greek: διάστημα (el) (ðiástima) n. Hebrew: רווח (he) (révakh) m., מרווח (he) (mirvákh) m. Hungarian: szóköz (hu) Japanese: (gap between written characters) 空白 (ja) (kūhaku); (blank at a top or bottom of a page) 余白 (ja) (yohaku)

Lithuanian: tarpas m. Macedonian: проред (mk) (próred) m. Polish: spacja f., odstęp (pl) m. Portuguese: espaço (pt) m. Russian: пробел (ru) (prob'él) m. Swahili: nafasi (sw) Swedish: mellanrum (sv), mellanslag (sv) (typographic character) Turkish: boşluk Urdu: وقفہ (waqfah) m. Vietnamese: khoảng cách chữ, phiến cách chữ

typography: a piece of type used to separate words

Estonian: sõnavahe (et) French: espace f. Greek: διάστημα (el) (ðiástima) n. Japanese: 間隔 (ja) (kankaku)

Macedonian: проред (mk) (próred) m. Russian: пробел (ru) (prob'él) m. Swahili: nafasi (sw)

set of points

Czech: prostor (cs) m. Finnish: avaruus (fi) Greek: χώρος (khóros) m. Hebrew: מרחב (he) (merkháv) m. Hungarian: tér (hu) Japanese: 空間 (ja) (kūkan) Macedonian: простор (mk) (próstor) m.

Polish: przestrzeń (pl) Russian: пространство (ru) (prostránstvo) n. Swahili: nafasi (sw), nafasi (sw) Swedish: rum (sv) n. (mathematics), rymd (sv) c. (physics) Turkish: uzay (tr) Vietnamese: không gian

personal freedom

Finnish: tila (fi) German: Freiraum (de) m. Greek: χώρος (khóros) m. Swahili: nafasi (sw), uhuru (sw)

Swedish: utrymme (sv) n., rum (sv) n. Vietnamese: khoảng trời riêng

a state of mind one is in when daydreaming

Japanese: 空白 (ja) (kūhaku)

Swahili: nafasi (sw)

mathematics: a generalized construct or set

Danish: rum (da) n. Estonian: ruum (et) Macedonian: простор (mk) (próstor) m. Polish: przestrzeń (pl) f.

Swahili: nafasi (sw) Swedish: rum (sv) n. Vietnamese: không gian

Indian philosophy: one of the five basic elements

Swahili: nafasi (sw)

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Afrikaans: ruimte, plek, volume, hemelruim, ruimte, blanko, spasie Catalan: espai m. Mandarin: 空间 (kōngjiān) Italian: spazio m. Korean: 공간 (gonggan), 우주 (uju) Occitan: espaci m.

Verb

space (third-person singular simple present spaces, present participle spacing, simple past and past participle spaced)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

     But she as Fayes are wont, in priuie place / Did spend her dayes, and lov'd in forests wyld to space.

2. (transitive) To be separated to a distance.

   The cities are evenly spaced.

3. (intransitive) To eject into outer space. Usually without a space suit.

   The captain spaced the traitors.

Translations

to be separated to a distance

Macedonian: раздалечува (mk) (razdaléčuva) Portuguese: espaçar (pt)

Swahili: nafasi (sw) Vietnamese: đặt cách nhau, để cách nhau

to eject into outer space

Swahili: nafasi (sw)

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