space
IPA: spˈeɪs
noun
- (heading) Of time.
- (now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity.
- A specific (specified) period of time.
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
- (heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
- Distance between things.
- Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
- 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.
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
- (heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries.
- (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
- (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).
- A gap; an empty place.
- (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).
- (countable, figuratively) A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
- Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
- A surname.
verb
- (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
- (transitive) To set some distance apart.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
- (transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
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Examples of "space" in Sentences
- The inner space was cozy.
- It is, rather, a space of potentiality.
- It's the space of irreducible characters.
- Redecorating dorm rooms gives extra space.
- Having Americans in space is something you just accept.
- The last optical space in the system is the image space.
- The first optical space in the system is the object space.
- The oculo malar space is the distance between the eye and the mandible.
- The Defensible Space Theory is applicable to any type of planned space.
- The impact plate is spaced a specific distance above the exit of the flue.
- Typically, the measurable space is the measurable space over the real numbers.
- Inside the dura, and separated from it by a narrow space -- the _sub-dural space_ -- lies the
- We could also say «per decem pedēs», _for ten feet_, where the space relation is one of _extent of space_.
- “Having people in space is how we have come so far and have really been able to dominate space,” Hutchison said.
- And, America's interest in space is enough to warrant (through our elected officials) at 15 to 20 billion dollar budget a year.
- I. iii.18 (165,3) till the diminution/Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle] _The diminution of space_, is _the diminution_ of which
- I don’t know – maybe because I grew up with space ships and that great promise to meet aliens someday that ’space porn’ still incredibly excites me.
- To imagine a space means nothing else than that we imagine an epitome of our space experience, i.e. of experience that we can have in the movement of rigid bodies.
- The space between these layers -- the _sub-arachnoid space_ -- is traversed by a network of fine fibrous strands, in the meshes of which the cerebro-spinal fluid circulates.
- Mr. Dyer, that he confounded the idea of _space_ with that of _empty space_, and did not consider, that though space might be without matter, yet matter, being extended, could not be without space.