space

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: OE. space, F. espace, from L. spatium space; cf. Gr. σπᾶν to draw, to tear; perh. akin to E. span. Cf. Expatiate.

1. Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion.— John Locke

2. Place, having more or less extension; room.

They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in].— R. of Brunne.

While I have time and space.— Geoffrey Chaucer

3. A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.

Put a space betwixt drove and drove.— Gen. xxxii. 16.

4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. “Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space.” R. of brunne.

Nine times the space that measures day and night.— John Milton

God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance.— John Tilllotson

5. A short time; a while. rare “To stay your deadly strife a space.” Edmund Spenser

6. Walk; track; path; course. obsolete

This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space.— Geoffrey Chaucer

7. Printing (a) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, — used to separate words or letters. (b) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books, on a computer screen, etc.

☞ Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.

8. Music One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.

9. that portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; — called also outer space.

Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. — deep space, the part of outer space which is beyond the limits of the solar system. — Space line Printing, a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead. Luke Hansard — Space rule Printing, a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter.

Origin: Cf. OF. espacier, L. spatiari. See Space, noun

To walk; to rove; to roam. obsolete

And loved in forests wild to space.— Edmund Spenser

Origin: Cf. F. espacer. See Space, noun

Printing To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

1.<character> The space character, ASCII character code

32.Entered by hitting the space bar.

2.The set of all possible values of some entity. A space may be simple, like the space of all binary digits (0, 1) or complex like the space of all books ever published. The former has only one dimension with two discrete values, the latter has many dimensions (author, publisher, date of publication in different countries, weight).

(2019-08-07)