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

  • Having Americans in space is something you just accept.
  • 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.

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