Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(physics) an ideal space in which the coordinate dimensions represent the variables that are required to describe a system or substance;
- Example: "a multidimensional phase space"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
phase space
n 1: (physics) an ideal space in which the coordinate dimensions
represent the variables that are required to describe a
system or substance; "a multidimensional phase space"
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
phase space
The 2n-dimensional space consisting of the
possible values of (x1, x1., x2, x2., ..., xn, xn.) for a
system of n first-order ordinary differential equations (or
more generally, Pfaffian forms).
If n=1, the phase space is known as a phase plane.
(http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PhaseSpace.html).
(2008-05-02)