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[ Etymology
From Old French espace.
[ Noun
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space (countable and uncountable; plural spaces)
- The intervening contents of a volume.
- (uncountable) Space occupied by or intended for a person or thing.
- There's not enough space for this couch in this room.
- (countable) An area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing.
- They reserved a space for him to park his car.
- Write your name in the space below.
- The area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum.
- A gap between written characters; blank.
- (typography) A piece of type used to separate words.
- (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.
- We live in a space that has at least four dimensions: up-down, left-right, forward-backward, and future-past.
- One's personal freedom to think or be oneself.
- I just need some space, man.
- The state of mind one is in when daydreaming.
- (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
- (Indian philosophy) One of the five basic elements.
[ Synonyms
- (intervening contents of a volume):
- (space occupied by or intended for a person or thing): room
- (area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing): place, spot
- (area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum): outer space
- (gap between written characters): blank, gap, whitespace (computing)
- (piece of type used to separate words):
- (set of points each uniquely specified by a set of coordinates):
- (person freedom to think or be oneself):
- (state of mind one is in when daydreaming):
- (generalized construct or set in mathematics):
- (one of thee five basic elements in Indian philosophy):
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[ Translations
intervening contents of a volume
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uncountable: space occupied by or intended for a person or thing
countable: an area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing
area beyond atmosphere of planets
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gap between written characters
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