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From Old French espace.

[ Noun

Singular
space

Plural
countable and uncountable; spaces

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.
    There's not enough space for this couch in this room.
  3. (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.
  4. The area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum.
  5. A gap between written characters; blank.
  6. (typography) A piece of type used to separate words.
  7. (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.
  8. One's personal freedom to think or be oneself.
    I just need some space, man.
  9. The state of mind one is in when daydreaming.
  10. (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
  11. (Indian philosophy) One of the five basic elements.

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