Space
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English
Pronoun
space (uncountable and countable; plural: spaces)
- The intervening contents of a volume.
- The area beyond a planet's atmosphere that consists of a vacuum.
- White area between written characters; blank.
- 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 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.
Related words
- spacious
- spacecraft
- spaceman
- spaceship
- subspace
- vectorspace
- space out
- space race
- inner space
- outer space
Translations
- Breton: egor m (1,2)
- Dutch: ruimte f (1), spatie m (3)
- Finnish: tila (1); avaruus (2); väli (3)
- French: espace f (1,2)
- German: Raum m, Platz m (1), Weltraum m (2), Leerzeichen n, Leerstelle f (3)
- Greek: αποστάση (1) (apostásē), διάστημα (2) (diástēma)
- Hebrew: מרהב m
- Lithuanian: erdvė f (1); kosmosas m (2); tarpas m (3)
- Romanian: spaţiu n (1,2)
- Spanish: espacio m (1,2)
