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space |sp?s| 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 earth's 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. verb 1 [ with obj. ] (usu. be spaced) position (two or more items) at a distance from one another: the houses are spaced out . • (in printing or writing) put blanks between (words, letters, or lines): (as noun spacing) : the default setting is single line spacing. 2 (usu. be spaced out or space out) informal be or become distracted, euphoric, or disoriented, esp. from taking drugs; cease to be aware of one's surroundings: I was so tired that I began to feel totally spaced out | I kind of space out for a few minutes. PHRASES watch this space informal further developments are expected and more information will be given later. DERIVATIVES spacer noun ORIGIN Middle English: shortening of Old French espace, from Latin spatium. Current verb senses date from the late 17th cent.
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