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Verb
/spās/,
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spaces, plural;
  1. Position (two or more items) at a distance from one another
    • - the houses are spaced out
  2. (in printing or writing) Put blanks between (words, letters, or lines)
    • - the default setting is single line spacing
  3. Be or become distracted, euphoric, or disoriented, esp. from taking drugs; cease to be aware of one's surroundings
    • - I was so tired that I began to feel totally spaced out
    • - I kind of space out for a few minutes
Noun
  1. A continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied
    • - a table took up much of the space
    • - we shall all be living together in a small space
    • - he backed out of the parking space
  2. An area of land that is not occupied by buildings
    • - she had a love of open spaces
  3. An empty area left between one-, two-, or three-dimensional points or objects
    • - the space between a wall and a utility pipe
  4. A blank between printed, typed, or written words, characters, numbers, etc

  5. Each of the four gaps between the five lines of a staff

  6. An interval of time (often used to suggest that the time is short, considering what has happened or been achieved in it)
    • - both their cars were stolen in the space of three days
  7. Pages in a newspaper, or time between television or radio programs, available for advertising

  8. An area rented or sold as business premises

  9. The amount of paper used or needed to write about a subject
    • - there is no space to give further details
  10. The freedom and scope to live, think, and develop in a way that suits one
    • - a teenager needing her own space
  11. One of two possible states of a signal in certain systems

  12. The dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move
    • - the work gives the sense of a journey in space and time
  13. The physical universe beyond the earth's atmosphere

  14. The near vacuum extending between the planets and stars, containing small amounts of gas and dust

  15. A mathematical concept generally regarded as a set of points having some specified structure


  1. the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space"; "the boundless regions of the infinite"
  2. place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates"
  3. an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth"
  4. an area reserved for some particular purpose; "the laboratory's floor space"
  5. outer space: any location outside the Earth's atmosphere; "the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether"; "the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth"
  6. a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet"
  7. Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. ...
  8. Space was a 1990 ambient house concept album by Jimmy Cauty under the alias Space. Originally intended to be The Orb's debut album, Space was refactored for release as a solo album following Cauty's departure from that group. ...
  9. Space is an album by Bleach. It was released in 1996 under Forefront Records. This was Bleach's first studio album.
  10. This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order. Some of these have their own pages, like fork and pin. ...
  11. Space is a contextual noun used to partially describe the abstract competitive set of the subject or subjects. The members of the space will almost always be Companies who supply services to customers. ...
  12. Space (Hyperspace in the United States) was a 2001 BBC documentary with various subtitles reflecting the specific topic. Hosted and narrated by Sam Neill, the six-part series aired episodes as follows: #"Star Stuff" - on the origin of the universe, stars, and the solar system. ...
  13. The intervening contents of a volume; Space occupied by or intended for a person or thing; An area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing; A while; The volume beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a relative vacuum; The volume beyond the Kármán line that lies ...
  14. (Spaces) Gaps in the layout or empty piles that can be played based on the rules of the given solitaire game.
  15. (Spaces) They are separate compartments including holds and tanks.
  16. (spaces) all the places from wilderness forests to backyards that are home to the millions of species of plants and animals in the world, including the places that people have created: buildings, special sites, monuments.
  17. The character generated by hitting the space bar on the keyboard.
  18. In a GIS context this means position on the earth's surface. Its meaning is very similar to location.
  19. In statistics, a collection of objects or measurements of objects, treated as if they were points in a plane, a volume, on the surface of a sphere, or on any higher-dimensional generalization of these intuitive structures. ...
  20. The area occupied by an exhibitor in the exhibition hall.
  21. The final frontier? Are you daft? No, just the niche or market segment your company currently inhabits or hopes to enter. Or, as your CEO might put it, "How can we leverage our core competencies to enter the web-services space?"
  22. The part of the printed page that is not occupied by print or other images. The ground or complement of the image.
  23. In telecommunications, the absence of a signal. Equivalent to a binary 0.
  24. The akasha provides shelter to all the above elements. It is also considered the primary conductor of all energy sources within the universal context - physical energies such as sound and light, social energies such as psychological and emotional, and cognitive energies such as intellect and ...
  25. Telegraph parlance for a logic Zero