namespace

English

Etymology

From name +‎ space.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪmspeɪs/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: name‧space

Noun

namespace (plural namespaces)

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

Derived terms

• mainspace
• userspace

Translations

conceptual space

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 命名空間 / 命名空间 (mìngmíng kōngjiān)

• Czech: jmenný prostor m
• Dutch: naamruimte (nl)
• Esperanto: nomspaco, nomspacoj pl
• Finnish: nimiavaruus (fi)
• French: espace de nom (fr) m, espace de noms (fr) m
• German: Namensraum (de) m
• Greek: ονοματοχώρος (el) m (onomatochóros)
• Hungarian: névtér (hu)
• Japanese: 名前空間 (なまえくうかん, namae kūkan)
• Korean: 이름공간 (ireumgonggan)
• Polish: przestrzeń nazw f
• Portuguese: namespace m, espaço de nomes m
• Russian: простра́нство имён n (prostránstvo imjón)
• Slovak: menný priestor m
• Spanish: espacio de nombres m
• Swedish: namnrymd (sv) c
• Turkish: ad uzayı (tr), isim uzayı
• Vietnamese: không gian tên (vi)

Verb

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

1. (programming) 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

Anagrams

• namescape

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English namespace.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌnejm.ˈspejs/, /ˌnejm.ˈspej.si/

Noun

namespace m (plural namespaces)

1. (programming) namespace (abstract space of keywords)

   Synonym: espaço de nomes