space |spās| noun 1 a continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied: a table took up much of the space | we shall all be living together in a small space | the space between a wall and a utility pipe | he backed out of the parking space. • an area of land that is not occupied by buildings: she had a love of open spaces. • a blank between printed, typed, or written words, characters, numbers, etc. • Music each of the four gaps between the five lines of a staff. • an interval of time (often used to suggest that the time is short, considering what has happened or been achieved in it): both their cars were stolen in the space of three days. • pages in a newspaper, or time between television or radio programs, available for advertising. • (also commercial space )an area rented or sold as business premises. • the amount of paper used or needed to write about a subject: there is no space to give further details. • the freedom and scope to live, think, and develop in a way that suits one: a teenager needing her own space. • Telecommunications one of two possible states of a signal in certain systems. The opposite of mark1 ( sense 2 of the noun). 2 the dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move: the work gives the sense of a journey in space and time. • (also outer space )the physical universe beyond the earths atmosphere. • the near vacuum extending between the planets and stars, containing small amounts of gas and dust. • Mathematics a mathematical concept generally regarded as a set of points having some specified structure.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:53:07 +0000