space
English
Etymology
From Middle English space, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. space, variant of espace, espas et al., and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French spaze, variant of espace, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin spatium, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European ( > speed).
Pronunciation
Noun
space (countable and uncountable, plural spaces)
- (heading) Of time.
- (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. [from 14thc.]
- 1616, William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, act 4:
- Come on, thou are granted space.
- 1793, Henry Boyd, The Royal Message, Poems:
- In two days hence / The judge of life and death ascends his seat. / —This will afford him space to reach the camp […].
- A specific (specified) period of time. [from 14thc.]
- 1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey
- I pray you, sirs, to take some cheers the while I go for a moment's space to my poor afflicted child.
- 2007, Andy Bull, The Guardian, 20 October:
- The match was lost, though, in the space of just twenty minutes or so.
- 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers”, in 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.
- 1893, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Giles Corey
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while. [from 15thc.]
- 1923, PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
- Even Comrade Butt cast off his gloom for a space and immersed his whole being in scrambled eggs.
- 1923, PG Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
- (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity. [from 14thc.]
- (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
- Distance between things. [from 14thc.]
- c.1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
- But neere him, thy Angell / Becomes a feare: as being o're-powr'd, therefore / Make space enough betweene you.
- 2001, Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 3 November:
- Which means that for every car there was 10 years ago, there are now 40. Which means - and this is my own, not totally scientific, calculation - that the space between cars on the roads in 1991 was roughly 39 car lengths, because today there is no space at all.
- c.1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
- Physical extent across two or three dimensions; area, volume (sometimes for or to do something). [from 14thc.]
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, First Folio 1623
- O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and / count my selfe a King of infinite space; were it not that / I haue bad dreames.
- 2007, Dominic Bradbury, The Guardian, 12 May:
- They also wanted a larger garden and more space for home working.
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, First Folio 1623
- 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.]
- 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, II
- Space is the Phantasme of a Thing existing without the Mind simply.
- 1880, Popular Science, August:
- These are not questions which can be decided by reference to our space intuitions, for our intuitions are confined to Euclidean space, and even there are insufficient, approximative.
- 2007, Anushka Asthana & David Smith, The Observer, 15 April:
- The early results from Gravity Probe B, one of Nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion Einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the Earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.
- 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, II
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. [from 17thc.]
- 1901, HG Wells, The First Men in the Moon:
- After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.
- 2010, The Guardian, 9 August:
- The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking warned today.
- 1901, HG Wells, The First Men in the Moon:
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom. [from 20thc.]
- 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:
- Around the time of my parents' divorce, I learned that reading could also give me space.
- 2008, Jimmy Treigle, Walking on Water
- "I care about you Billy, whether you believe it or not; but right now I need my space."
- 1996, Linda Brodkey, Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only:
- Distance between things. [from 14thc.]
- (heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. [from 14thc.]
- Template:RQ:EHough PrqsPrc
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- 2000, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender
- The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard.
- 2012, Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 16 July:
- Converted from vast chambers beneath the old Bankside Power Station which once held a million gallons of oil, the new public areas consist of two large circular spaces for performances and film installations, plus a warren of smaller rooms.
- Template:RQ:EHough PrqsPrc
- (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines. [from 15thc.]
- 1849, John Pyke Hullah, translating Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing
- The note next above Sol is La; La, therefore, stands in the 2nd space; Si, on the 3rd line, &c.
- 1990, Sammy Nzioki, Music Time
- The lines and spaces of the staff are named according to the first seven letters of the alphabet, that is, A B C D E F G.
- 1849, John Pyke Hullah, translating Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem, Wilhelm's Method of Teaching Singing
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap. [from 16thc.]
- 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation
- According to experts, a single line of text should rarely exceed about 50 characters (including letters and all the spaces between words).
- 2005, Dr BR Kishore, Dynamic Business Letter Writing:
- It should be typed a space below the salutation : Dear Sir, Subject : Replacement of defective items.
- 1992, Sam H Ham, Environmental Interpretation
- (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). [from 17thc.]
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v.2, pp.240–1:
- 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.
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., v.2, pp.240–1:
- A gap; an empty place. [from 17thc.]
- 2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma
- Mainstream Hollywood would not cater to the taste for sexual sensation, which left a space for B-movies, including noir.
- 2009, Barbara L. Lev, From Pink to Green
- A horizontal scar filled the space on her chest where her right breast used to be.
- 2004, Harry M Benshoff (ed.), Queer Cinéma
- (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.]
- Functional analysis is best approached through a sound knowledge of Hilbert space theory.
- (countable, figuratively) A marketplace for goods or services.
- innovation in the browser space
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries. [from 14thc.]
Quotations
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:space.
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): ether
Hyponyms
- 2-em space
- 3-em space
- 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
- Euclidean space
- exceptional space
- exotic four-space
- fishing space
- flat space
- floor 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
- 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
- mutton space
- namespace
- n-dimensional space
- normal space
- normed linear space
- n 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
- whitespace
- white space
- workspace
Derived terms
- aerospace
- airspace
- backspace
- bunkspace
- crawlspace
- cyberspace
- deep-space
- double-space
- floorspace
- four-space
- headspace
- hydrospace
- hyperspace
- interspace
- multispace
- namespace
- near-space
- non-space
- pseudospace
- single-space
- spaceborne
- spacecraft
- spacefaring
- spaceful
- spaceless
- spacelike
- spacely
- spaceman
- spaceport
- spacer
- space-saving
- spaceship
- space-time
- spaceward
- spacey
- spacial
- subspace
- sunspace
- three-space
- whitespace
Related terms
- space age
- Space Age
- space alien
- space attenuation
- space bar
- space biology
- space blanket
- space cadet
- space capsule
- space centrode
- space charge
- space cloth
- space communication
- space cone
- space coordinate
- space current
- space curve
- space defence
- space defense
- space environment
- space factor
- space fixed reference
- space flight
- space frame
- space group
- space guidance
- space heater
- space hopper
- space junk
- space lattice
- space medicine
- space mission
- space motion
- space navigation
- space opera
- space out
- space perception
- space permeability
- space polar coordinate
- space power system
- space probe
- space processing
- space programme, space program
- space quadrature
- space quantization
- space race
- space reconnaissance
- space reddening
- space request
- space research
- space satellite
- space science
- space shuttle
- space sickness
- space simulator
- space station
- space suit
- space suppression
- space technology
- space tourism
- space velocity
- space walk
- space wave
- space weapon
- space weather
- space writer
Translations
interval of time
while — see while
physical extent in two or three dimensions
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area beyond atmosphere of planets
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personal freedom
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bounded or specific physical extent
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gap between written characters, lines etc.
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a gap, an empty place
piece of type used to separate words
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music: position on the staff
geometry: set of points
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mathematics: generalized construct or set
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figuratively: marketplace for goods or services
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See also
- apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
- curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
- square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
- colon ( : )
- comma ( , )
- dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
- ellipsis ( … )
- exclamation mark ( ! )
- fraction slash ( ⁄ )
- guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
- hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
- interpunct ( · )
- interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
- brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
- full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
- question mark ( ? )
- quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
- quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
- semicolon ( ; )
- slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
- space ( ] [ )
Verb
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- (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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- (transitive) To set some distance apart.
- Faye had spaced the pots at 8-inch intervals on the windowsill.
- The cities are evenly spaced.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- This paragraph seems badly spaced.
- (transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- The captain spaced the traitors.
- 1952, Robert A. Heinlein, The Rolling Stones:
- Sound effect of blow with blunt instrument, groan, and the unmistakable cycling of an air lock—Castor: "Sorry, folks. My assistant has just spaced Mr. Rudolf. […] "
- 1995, J. Michael Straczynski, And Now for a Word (Babylon 5), season 2, episode 15, spoken by Dr. Stephen Franklin (Richard Biggs):
- A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will.
- (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
- 1947 January, Bernard I. Kahn, “Command”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 38, number 5:
- He well remembered, when he was a junior officer, how the sight of a well dressed, impeccably neat commanding officer, no matter how long they had been spacing, maintained the enthusiasm, confidence and morale of the officers and men.
Derived terms
Translations
to set some distance apart
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to eject into outer space
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Related terms
References
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
space oblique singular, m (oblique plural spaces, nominative singular spaces, nominative plural space)
- Alternative form of espace
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