white space

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English

Alternative forms

• whitespace

Pronunciation

• enPR: wīt???, IPA: /waɪtspeɪs/, SAMPA: /waIt???/
• enPR: hwīt, IPA: /ʍaɪt/, SAMPA: /WaIt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪs, -aɪt
• Homophone: wight

Noun

white space (plural white spaces)

1. White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).
2. (computer science) Any single character or series of characters that represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.

Synonyms

• (computer science) whitespace character

Related terms

• negative space

Translations

white area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page

Czech: bílé místo (cs) n.

Icelandic: bil n., hvítbil n.

single character or series of characters

Czech: bílý znak (cs) m., bílé znaky (cs) m. pl.

Icelandic: bil n., hvítbil n.

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 (   )