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Pronunciation
AHD|sp�s, IPA|/speɪs/, SAMPA|/speIs/
audio|en-us-space.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪs|-eɪs

Etymology
From OF. espace.

Noun
en-noun|s|-

1. The intervening contents of a volume.
2. uncountable Space occupied by or intended for a person or thing.

#:There's not enough space for this couch in this room.

1. countable An area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing.

#:They reserved a space for him to park his car.
#:Write your name in the space below.

1. The area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum.
2. A gap between written characters; blank.
3. typography A piece of type used to separate words.
4. geometry A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a set of coordinates; the number of coordinates specifying a point and the number of mutually perpendicular axis|axes along which the coordinates lie are the same, and that is the number of dimensions of the space.

#:We live in a space that has at least four dimensions: up-down, left-right, forward-backward, and future-past.

1. One's personal freedom to think or be oneself.

#:I just need some space, man.

1. The state of mind one is in when daydreaming.
2. mathematics a generalized construct or set, the members of which have certain properties in common; often used in combination with the name of a particular mathematician
3. context|Indian philosophy One of the five basic elements.

Synonyms
(intervening contents of a volume):
(space occupied by or intended for a person or thing): room
(area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing): place, spot
(area beyond the atmosphere of planets that consists of a vacuum): outer space
(gap between written characters): blank, gap, whitespace (computing)
(piece of type used to separate words):
(set of points each uniquely specified by a set of coordinates):
(person freedom to think or be oneself):
(state of mind one is in when daydreaming):
(generalized construct or set in mathematics):
(one of the five basic elements in Indian philosophy):

Derived terms
top3
address space
aerospace
affine space
airspace, air space
backspace
Baire space
Banach space
base space
breathing space
chemical space
column space
compact space
conjugate space
connected space
crawl space, crawlspace
cyberspace
danger space
dark space
dead-air space
dead space
deep space
double-space
drift space
dual space
Einstein space
espace
Euclidean space
exceptional space
exotic four-space
fishing space
flat space
Foch space
Fourier space
Fréchet space
free space
function space
G space
hair space
half space
Hausdorff space
headspace
Hilbert space
homeomorphic space
homogeneous space
hydrospace
hyperbolic space
hyperspace
image space
inertial space
inner product space
interaction space
interplanetary space
interspace
interstellar space
intervillous space
isometric space
joint space
justifying space
lacunary space
Lindelöf space
loading space
measurable space
metacompact space
metric space
metrizable space
Minkowski space
Moore space
mid3
namespace
n space
n-dimensional space
normal space
normed linear space
null space
object space
open half space
orbit space
orthogonal space
outer space
paracompact space
Pauli spin space
Peano space
perfectly separable space
perivitelline space
phase space
Polish space
popliteal space
pore space
probability space
problem space
projective space
quotient space
reflexive Banach space
regular space
regular topological space
Riemann space
sample space
separable space
sequentially compact space
shrinking space
single-space
space age, Space Age
space attenuation
space bar
space biology
space blanket
spaceborne
space cadet
space capsule
space centrode
space charge
space cloth
space communication
space cone
space coordinate
spacecraft
space current
space curve
spaced
space defence, space defense
spaced-out
space environment
space factor
spacefaring
space fixed reference
space flight
space frame
spaceful
space group
space guidance
space heater
space hopper
space junk
space lattice
spaceless
spacelike
mid3
spaceman
space medicine
space mission
space motion
space navigation
space out
space perception
space permeability
space polar coordinate
spaceport
space power system
space probe
space processing
space quadrature
space quantization
spacer
space race
space reconnaissance
space reddening
space request
space research
space satellite
space science
spaceship
space shuttle
space sickness
space simulator
space station
space suit
space suppression
space technology
space tourism
space velocity
space walk
spaceward
space wave
space weapon
space weather
space writer
space-time
spacey
spacious
spin space
state space
strictly convex space
subarachnoid space
subspace
sunspace
suprasternal
symmetric space
T0 space
T1 space
T3 space
T4 space
tangent space
tensor space
three-space
topological space
total space
triangulable space
Tychonoff space
uniform space
unitary space
vector space
wave-vector space
weakly complete space
white space, whitespace
workspace

Translations
trans-top|intervening contents of a volume
Arabic: ARchar|�راغ unicode|(fará:�)
Bosnian: prostor#Bosnian|prostor m
Breton: egor m
Chinese: 空�, 空� (k�ngji�n)
Dutch: ruimte f
Finnish: tila
French: espace m
German: Raum m, Platz m
Greek: ���ο� (xóros) m, διά��ημα (ðiástima) n
Hebrew: נפ� romanization of Hebrew|néfakh m
Italian: spazio m
Japanese: 空� (����, kūkan)
trans-mid
Korean: �� (konggan)
Lithuanian: erdv� f
Maltese: spazju m
Portuguese: espaço m
Romanian: spaţiu n
Russian: п�о���ан��во (prostránstvo) n
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: п�о��о�#Serbian|п�о��о� m
:Roman: prostor#Serbian|prostor m
Spanish: espacio m
Swedish: rymd c, utrymme n
Turkish: bo�luk
Vietnamese: khoảng, ch�
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trans-top|uncountable: space occupied by or intended for a person or thing
French: espace m
trans-mid
Italian: spazio m
Portuguese: espaço m
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trans-top|countable: an area or volume of sufficient size to accommodate a person or thing
French: place#French|place f
trans-mid
Italian: posto m
Portuguese: espaço m, lugar m
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trans-top|area beyond atmosphere of planets
Bosnian: svemir m, kosmos m, vasiona f
Breton: egor m
Estonian: maailmaruum
Finnish: avaruus
French: espace m
German: Weltraum m, All n, Weltall n
Greek: διά��ημα (ðiástima) n
Hebrew: ��� romanization of Hebrew|khalál m
Italian: spazio m
Lithuanian: kosmosas m
Polish: przestrze� f
Portuguese: espaço m
trans-mid
Romanian: spaţiu n
Russian: п�о���ан��во n, ко�мо� m
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: �веми� m, ко�мо� m, ва�иона f
:Roman: svemir m, kosmos m, vasiona f
Spanish: espacio m
Swedish: rymd c, världsrymd c
Turkish: uzay
Urdu: خ�اء (khalaa) m
Vietnamese: không gian, không trung, khoảng không, vũ trụ
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trans-top|gap between written characters
Czech: mezera f
Dutch: spatie m
Estonian: tühik
Finnish: väli
French: espace m, blanc m
German: Leerzeichen n, Leerstelle f
Greek: κεν� (cenó) n, διά��ημα (ðiástima) n, α����α�η (apóstasi) f
Hebrew: ר��� romanization of Hebrew|révakh m, �ר��� romanization of Hebrew|mirvákh m
trans-mid
Lithuanian: tarpas m
Polish: spacja f
Portuguese: espaço m
Russian: п�обел (probél) m
Swedish: mellanrum, mellanslag (typographic character)
Turkish: bo�luk
Urdu: ���� (waqfah) m
Vietnamese: khoảng cách chữ, phiến cách chữ
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trans-top|typography: a piece of type used to separate words
French: espace f
trans-mid
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trans-top|set of points
Czech: prostor m
Greek: ���ο� (khóros) m
Hebrew: �ר�� romanization of Hebrew|merkháv m
trans-mid
Russian: п�о���ан��во (prostránstvo) n
Swedish: rum n (mathematics), rymd c (physics)
Turkish: uzay
Vietnamese: không gian
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trans-top|personal freedom
German: Freiraum m
Greek: ���ο� (khóros) m
trans-mid
Swedish: utrymme n, rum n
Vietnamese: khoảng tr�i riêng
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trans-top|mathematical construct
trans-mid
Swedish: rum#Swedish|rum n
Vietnamese: không gian
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Translations to be checked
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ttbc|Afrikaans: ruimte, plek, volume, hemelruim, ruimte, blanko, spasie
ttbc|Catalan: espai m
ttbc|Chinese: 空� (k�ngji�n)
ttbc|Italian: spazio m
ttbc|Japanese: 空�, ��, ��, ��
ttbc|Korean: 공� (gonggan), �주 (uju)
ttbc|Occitan: espaci m

Verb
en-verb|spac|ing

1. transitive To be separated to a distance.

#::The cities are evenly spaced.

1. intransitive To vent into vacuum.

#::The captain spaced the traitors.

Translations
trans-top|to be separated to a distance
trans-mid
Vietnamese: �ặt cách nhau, �� cách nhau
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Anagrams
capes
paces

Category:1000 English basic words

ang:space
ar:space
et:space
fa:space
fr:space
fy:space
ko:space
io:space
id:space
it:space
kk:space
lt:space
hu:space
ja:space
pl:space
pt:space
ru:space
simple:space
fi:space
sv:space
ta:space
te:space
vi:space
tr:space
zh:space

• 2007-12-14 15:10 - Daniel Polansky - /* English */ +Wikipedia

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