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Space

Definition: Space

Space

Noun

1. The unlimited 3-dimensional expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space".

2. An empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth".

3. An area reserved for some particular purpose; "the laboratory's floor space".

4. A blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet".

5. The interval between two times; "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes".

6. A blank area; "write your name in the space provided".

7. Any region in space outside the Earth's atmosphere; "the astronauts walked in space without a tether".

8. (mathematics) any set of points that satisfy a set of postulates of some kind; "assume the vector space is finite dimensional".

9. One of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff; "the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E".

10. : (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words.

Verb

1. Place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "space" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Space

DomainDefinition

Computing

Space The space character, ASCII 32. See octal forty. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Aerospace

1. Specifically, the part of the universe lying outside the limits of the earth's atmosphere.2. More generally, the volume in which all celestial bodies, including the earth, move. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Designation of the two significant conditions of a binary modulation or restitution. Source: European Union. (references)

Law

That region of the atmosphere enclosed by the vertical extension of the frontiers of a territory or country. Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

An area, region; a cavity. Source: European Union. (references)

Post & Telecom

In the context of a digital interface:voltage within a time slot containing a zero. Source: European Union. (references)
 Signal conditions 0 for a data circuit of a generator, i. e. the open-circuit condition. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang

Noun. Source: Space is an open area. Definition: Space is a place where a rave is held. usually a space is an abonded wherehouse. Context: Ravers speak of a space when they are discussing the location at which a rave will be held. Social Source: "RAVERS". Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Frequency-shift keying

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Frequency-shift keying (FSK) is frequency modulation in which the modulating signal shifts the output frequency between predetermined values.

Note 1: Usually, the instantaneous frequency is shifted between two discrete values termed the "mark frequency" and "space frequency". This is a noncoherent form of FSK.

Note 2: Coherent forms of FSK exist in which there is no phase discontinuity in the output signal. Synonyms frequency-shift modulation, frequency-shift signaling.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Frequency-shift keying."

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Geography

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Geography is the study of the locational and spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena on Earth. The word derives from the Greek words hê gê ("the Earth") and graphein ("to write", as in "to describe").

Geography is also the title of various historical books on this subject, notably the Geographia by Klaudios Ptolemaios (2nd century).

Geography is much more than cartography, the study of maps. It not only investigates what is where on the Earth, but also why it's there and not somewhere else, sometimes referred to as "location in space". It studies this whether the cause is natural or human. It also studies the consequences of those differences.

History of Geography

The Greekss are the first known culture to actively explore geography as a science and philosophy, with major contributors including Thales of Miletus, Herodotus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Aristotle, Dicaearchus of Messana, Strabo, and Ptolemy. Mapping by the Romanss as they explored new lands added new techniques.

During the Middle Ages, Arabs such as Idrisi, Ibn Battuta, and Ibn Khaldun built on and maintained the Greek and Roman learnings. Following the journeys of Marco Polo, interest in geography spread throughout Europe. During the Renaissance and into the 16th and 17th centuries the great voyages of exploration revived a desire for solid theoretical foundations and accurate detail. The Geographia Generalis by Bernhardus Varenius and Gerardus Mercator's world map are prime examples.

By the 18th century, geography had become recognized as a discrete discipline and became part of a typical university curriculum. Over the past two centuries the quantity of knowledge and the number of tools has exploded. There are strong links between geography and the sciences of geology and botany.

Methods

Spatial interrelationships are key to this synoptic science, and it uses maps as a key tool. Classical cartography has been joined by the more modern approach to geographical analysis, computer-based geographic information systems (GIS).

Geographers use four interrelated approaches:

Branches

Physical geography

This branch focuses on Geography as an Earth science, making use of biology to understand global flora and fauna patterns, and mathematics and physics to understand the motion of the earth and relationship with other bodies in the solar system. It also includes landscape ecology and environmental geography.

atmosphere -- archipelago -- continent -- desert -- island -- landform -- ocean -- sea -- river -- ecology -- climate -- soil -- geomorphology -- biogeography - Timeline of geography, paleontology

Human geography

The human, or political/cultural, branch of geography - also called anthropogeography focuses on the social science, non-physical aspects of the way the world is arranged. It examines how humans adapt themselves to the land and to other people, and in macroscopic transformations they enact on the world. It can be divided into the following broad categories: economic geography, political geography (including geopolitics), social geography (including urban geography), feminist geography , environmentalism, and military geography.

Countries of the world -- country -- nation -- state -- union -- province -- county -- city -- municipality

Historical geography

This branch seeks to determine how cultural features of the multifarious societies across the planet evolved and came into being. Study of the landscape is one of many key foci in this field - much can be deduced about earlier societies from their impact on their local environment and surroundings.

What's in a name? Historical Geography and the Berkeley School

"Historical Geography" can indeed refer to the recipriocal effects of geography and history on each other. But in the United States, it has a more specialized meaning: This is the name given by Carl Ortwin Sauer of The University of California, Berkeley to his program of reorganizing cultural geography (some say all geography) along regional lines, beginning in the first decades of the 20th Century.

To Sauer, a landscape and the cultures in it could only be understood if all of its influences through history were taken into account: Physical, cultural, economic, political, environmental. Sauer stressed regional specialization as the only means of gaining expertise on regions of the world.

Sauer's philosophy was the principal shaper of American geographic thought in the mid-20th century. Regional specialists remain in academic geography departments to this day. But many geographers feel that it harmed the discipline in the long run: Too much effort was spent on data collection and classification, and too little on analysis and explanation. Studies became more and more area specific as later geographers struggled to find places to make names for themselves. This probably led in turn to the 1950's crisis in Geography which nearly destroyed it as an academic discpline.

Geographic Techniques

Related Fields

Urban and Regional Planning

Urban planning and regional planning use the science of geography to assist in determining how to develop (or not develop) the land to meet particular criteria, such as safety, beauty, economic opportunities, the preservation of the built or natural heritage, etcetera. The planning of towns, cities and rural areas may be seen as applied geography although it also draws heavily upon the arts, the sciences and lessons of history. Some of the issues facing planning are considered briefly under the headings of rural exodus, urban exodus and Smart Growth.

Regional Science

In the 1950s the regional science movement arose, led by Walter Isard to provide a more quantitative and analytical base to geographical questions, in contrast to the more qualitative tendencies of traditional geography programs. Regional Science comprises the body of knowledge in which the spatial dimension plays a fundamental role, such as regional economics, resource management, location theory, urban and regional planning, transportation and communication, human geography, population distribution, landscape ecology and environmental quality.

See also

List of countries simple:Geography

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Geography."

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Space

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The definition of space in physics is contentious. Various concepts used to try to define space have included:

In classical physics, space is a three-dimensional Euclidean space where any position can be described using three coordinatess. Relativistic physics examines spacetime rather than space; spacetime is modeled as a four-dimensional manifold.

Philosophical questions concerning space include: Is space absolute or purely relational? Does space have one correct geometry, or is the geometry of space just a convention? Historical Eminences who have taken sides in these debates include Isaac Newton (space is absolute), Gottfried Leibniz (space is relational), and Henri Poincaré (spatial geometry is a convention).

Two important thought-experiments connected with these questions are: Newton's bucket argument and Poincaré's disc-world.

See also: Spherical coordinates, Cartesian coordinates, Philosophy of physics

Space is the relatively empty parts of the Universe, outside the atmospheress of planets. It is sometimes called "outer space" to distinguish it from airspace and terrestrial locations.

As Earth's atmosphere has no abrupt cut-off, but rather thins gradually with increasing altitude, there is no definite boundary between the atmosphere and space. In the United States, persons who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 kilometers) are designated as astronauts. 400,000 feet (75 miles or 120 kilometers) marks the boundary where atmospheric effects become noticeable during re-entry. The altitude of 100 kilometers or 62 miles is also frequently used as the boundary between atmosphere and space.

See also: Astronomy and Astrophysics; space science; space colonization

The term "inner space" has sometimes been used to describe the contents of the human mind.

See also: psychology

In mathematics, a space is a set, usually with some additional structure.

For examples, see Euclidean space, vector space, normed vector space, Banach space, inner product space, Hilbert space, topological space, uniform space, and metric space.

In some orthographies, a space is a blank area that serves as punctuation to provide interword separation.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Space."

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Space (punctuation)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A space is a punctuation convention for providing interword separation in some scripts, including the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic.

Not all languages use spaces between words; the ancient Latin and Greek did not. Spaces were not used to separate words until roughly 600-800 AD. (See interword separation for more on the history.) Traditionally, all CJK languages have no space: modern Chinese and Japanese still don't, but modern Korea uses space.

In computer programming, the space corresponds to Unicode and ASCII character 32, or 0x0020.

In programming language syntax, spaces are frequently used to explicitly separate tokens. Aside from this use, spaces and other whitespace are usually ignored by most modern programming languages; Python is one exception.

In word processors and text editorss, if a line on a screen is shorter than the width of the screen or window, then the empty space to the right usually does not correspond with space characters in the file: there is simply a code indicating that the next text should be put on a new line. Thus, the size of the file is not made unnecessarily larger. If there are space characters, one usually does not see the difference; text editors and word processors often have an option to make them visible. Also, if there is a space character, the cursor can move there, otherwise usually not.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Space (punctuation)."

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Space colonization

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Space colonization, also called space settlement, is the hypothetical permanent autonomous (self sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. It is a major theme in science fiction.

Method

For humans to live permanently outside Earth, the habitat must maintain variables within an appropriate range, ie. homeostasis. The habitat must contain non-human species--for example, microorganisms and crop plants.

The relationship between organisms, their habitat and the non-Earth environment can be:

A combination of the above is also possible.

Location

The location of colonization can be:

Location is a frequent point of contention between space colonization advocates.

Planet, natural satellite or asteroid

Mars

Mars is a frequent topic of discussion. Its size and mass is similar to Earth, has large water reserves, and has carbon (locked as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere). It may have gone though similar geogloical and hydrolocial processes as Earth and contian vabluable mineral ores, but this is debated. Equipment is available to extract in-situ resources (water, air, etc.) from the Martian ground and atmosphere.

However, its atmosphere is very thin (7 milibars) and the climate is colder. There is also the problem of native bacteria, which may live on Mars.

The Moon

Due to its proximity and relative familiarity, Earth's Moon is also frequently discussed as a target for colonization. It has the benefits of close proximity to Earth and lower gravity, allowing for easier exchange of goods and services. A major drawback of the Moon is its low abundance of volatiles necessary for life such as hydrogen and carbon. Water ice deposits thought to exist in some polar craters could serve as significant sources for these elements.

Europa

The Artemis Project designed a plan to colonize Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. It would use igloos made of ice refrozen melted by the mircowaves on the surface. For submairne/drill would be use for drilling into the Europan ice crust, as well as any sub-surface ocean. It also discuss use of "air pockets" for human inhabitation.

Space

Space habitat

A space habitat is a space station which is intended as a permanent settlement rather than as a simple waystation or other specialized facility. They would be literal "cities" in space, where people would live and work and raise families. No space habitats have yet been constructed, but many design proposals have been made with varying degrees of realism by both science fiction authors and engineers.

Most of the real work on space habitats was carried out in the 1970s by workshops led by Gerard K. O'Neill in the post-Apollo highs at NASA. Several designs were studied, some in depth, with sizes ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 people. Attempts were made to make the habitats as self-supporting as possible, but all of the designs relied on regular shipments from Earth or the Moon, notably for volatiles.

One problem with the design that was not considered in any real depth is why any of them would be needed. The stated problem was to house workers needed for the construction of solar power satellites, which they predicted would require a peak of about 25,000 workers. However if this was the purpose, the habitat designs were certainly not utilitarian; they all contained housing for complete families, huge open spaces, and considerable parkland. An oil platform would appear to be a better model for such purposes. The workshops appeared to work in reverse, inventing the "solution", and then casting about for a need.

Designs proposed include:

Spaceship

A colony ship would be similar to a space habitat, except with major propulsion capabilities and independent power generation.

Concepts proposed in hard science fiction include:

Justification

In 2001, the space news website SPACE.com asked Freeman Dyson, J. Richard Gott and Sid Goldstein for reasons why some humans should live in space. Their respective answers [1] were:

Advocacy

There are several space advocacy organizations. The major ones are listed below:

Fictional depictions

These are all films and books that display famous depictions of space colonies of Earth.

Related articles

External links

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Space exploration

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer-earth objects and generally anything that involves the technologies, science, and politics regarding space endeavors.

The idea of sending an object to space was conceived in the minds of many science fiction authors hundreds of years before it was actually feasible. Some of these works even included various descriptions of exactly how that would be done. During the 20th century, with the development of adequate propulsion technologies, stronger and lighter materials and other technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no longer a dream, but a viable practice.

The first successful space launch was of the Russian unmanned Sputnik I mission on October 4, 1957. Manned space exploration began with the orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin in April, 1961.

See also:

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Space science

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Space is the relatively empty parts of the universe, outside the atmospheress of planets. It is sometimes called "outer space" to distinguish it from airspace and terrestrial locations. It may be considered to start at a height of ca. 100 km above the Earth's surface. For the term in general see Space.

Space science, or the space sciences, includes several major fields, such as:

In addition, space sciences impact or are related to many other fields, from the biology of organisms in space environments to the geology of other bodies and planets, as well as nuclear physics in interstellar space and inside stars.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Space science."

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Spacetime

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In special relativity and general relativity, time and three-dimensional space are treated together as a single four-dimensional manifold called spacetime (alternatively, space-time; see below). A point in spacetime may be referred to as an event. Each event has four coordinates (t, x, y, z).

Reference frame

Just as the x, y, z coordinates of a point depend on the axes one is using, so distances and time intervals, invariant in Newtonian physics, may depend on the reference frame of an observer, in relativistic physics. See length contraction and time dilation. This is the central lesson of special relativity.

The central lesson of general relativity is that spacetime cannot be a fixed background, but is rather a network of evolving relationships.

A spacetime interval between two events is the frame-invariant quantity analogous to distance in Euclidean space. The spacetime interval s along a curve is defined by

where c is the speed of light (some people flip the signs of the equation). A basic assumption of relativity is that coordinate transformations have to leave intervals invariant. Intervals are invariant under Lorentz transformations.

The spacetime intervals on a manifold define a pseudo-metric called the Lorentz metric. This metric is very similar to distance in Euclidean space. However, note that whereas distances are always positive, intervals may be positive, zero, or negative. Events with a spacetime interval of zero are separated by the propagation of a light signal. Events with a positive spacetime interval are in each other's future or past, and the value of the interval defines the proper time measured by an observer travelling between them. Spacetime together with this pseudo-metric makes up a pseudo-Riemannian manifold.

One of the simplest interesting examples of a spacetime is R4 with the spacetime interval defined above. This is known as Minkowski space, and is the usual geometric setting for Special Relativity. In contrast, General Relativity says that the underlying manifold will not be flat, if gravity is present, and thus it calls for the use of spacetime rather than Minkowski space.

Strictly speaking one can also consider events in Newtonian physics as a single spacetime. This is Galilean-Newtonian relativity, and the coordinate systems are related by Galilean transformations. However, since these preserve spatial and temporal distances independently, such a spacetime can be decomposed unarbitrarily, which is not possible in the general case.

Some general facts about spacetimes

A compact manifold can be turned into a spacetime if and only if its Euler characteristic is 0.

Any non-compact 4-manifold can be turned into a spacetime.

Many spacetimes have physical interpretations which most physicists would consider bizarre or unsettling. For example, a compact spacetime has closed timelike curves, which violate our usual ideas of causality. For this reason, mathematical physicists usually consider only restricted subsets of all the possible spacetimes. One way to do this is to study "realistic" solutions of the equations of General Relativity. Another way is add some additional "physically reasonable" but still fairly general geometric restrictions, and try to prove interesting things about the resulting spacetimes. The latter approach has lead to some important results, most notably the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems.

In mathematical physics it is also usual to restrict the manifold to be connected and Hausdorff. A Hausdorff spacetime is always paracompact.

Is Spacetime Quantized?

Current research is focused on the nature of spacetime at the Planck scale. Loop quantum gravity, string theory, and black hole thermodynamics all predict a quantized spacetime with agreement on the order of magnitude. Loop quantum gravity even makes precise predictions about the geometry of spacetime at the Planck scale.

Space-time vs. Spacetime

Examples of use of spacetime: Examples of use of space-time:

Related concepts

Galilean transformation | Lorentz transformation | Minkowski space | Lorentz invariance | Manifold | Metric space | Gravity | Four-vector

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spacetime."

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Topological space

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Topological spaces are structures that allow one to formalize concepts such as convergence, connectedness and continuity. They appear in all branches of modern mathematics and can be seen as a central unifying notion. The branch of mathematics that studies topological spaces in their own right is called topology.

History

See topology.

Formal definition

Formally, a topological space is a set X together with a collection T of subsets of X (i.e., T is a subset of the power set of X) satisfying the following axioms:

  1. The empty set and X are in T.
  2. The union of any collection of sets in T is also in T.
  3. The intersection of any pair of sets in T is also in T.

The set T is called a topology on X. The sets in T are referred to as open sets, and their complements in X are called closed sets. The elements of X are often called points. Roughly speaking, a topology is a way of specifying the concept of "nearness"; an open set is "near" each of its points.

Continuous functions

A function between topological spaces is said to be continuous if the inverse image of every open set is open. This is an attempt to capture the intuition that there are no "breaks" or "separations" in the function. A homeomorphism is a bijective mapping that is continuous and whose inverse is also continuous. Two spaces are said to be homeomorphic if there exists a homeomorphism between them. From the standpoint of topology, homeomorphic spaces are essentially identical.

The category of all topological spaces, Top, with topological spaces as objects and continuous functions as morphisms is one of the fundamental categories in all mathematics. The attempt to classify the objects of this category by invariants has motivated and generated entire areas of research, such as homotopy theory, homology theory, and K-theory, to name just a few.

Alternative definitions

There are many other equivalent ways to define a topological space. (In other words, each of the following defines a category equivalent to the category of topological spaces above.)

The empty set and X are closed.
  • The intersection of any collection of closed sets is also closed.
  • The union of any pair of closed sets is also closed.

  • Examples of topological spaces

    Constructing new topological spaces from given ones

    Classification of topological spaces

    Topological spaces can be broadly classified according to their degree of connectedness, their size, their degree of compactness and the degree of separation of their points and subsets. A great many terms are used in topology to achieve these distinctions. These terms and definitions are collected together in the Topology Glossary.

    Topological spaces with algebraic structure

    It is almost universally true that all "large" algebraic objects carry a natural topology which is compatible with the algebraic operations. In order to study these objects, one typically has to take the topology into account. This leads to concepts such as topological groups, topological vector spaces and topological rings.

    See also Algebraic topology.

    Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Topological space."

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    Abbreviations & Acronyms: Space

    The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
    EntrySourceExpressionField

    SPACE

    EnglishSignal processing for auditory communication in noisy environmentsComputing, Social Sciences
    SPEnglishSpaceComputing

    Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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    Synonyms: Space

    Synonyms: blank (n), blank space (n), distance (n), outer space (n), place (n), quad (n), topological space (n). (additional references)

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    Synonyms within Context: Space

    ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

    Distance

    Noun: distance; space; remoteness, farness, far-cry to; longinquity, elongation; offing, background; remote region; removedness; parallax; reach, span, stride.

    Adverb: far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away "; from pole to pole; (over great space); to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.

    Existence

    Presence; (existence in space); coexistence.

    Navigation

    Aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics; balloonery; balloon; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting.

    Presence

    Verb: exist in space, be present; Adjective: assister; make one of, make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy; be there.

    Situation

    Place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts; ground; bearings; (direction); spot; (limited space).

    Space

    Open space, free space; void; (absence); waste; wildness, wilderness; moor, moorland; campagna.

    Noun: space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread.

    Abyss; (interval); unlimited space; infinity; world; ubiquity; (presence); length and breadth of the land.

    Time

    Noun: time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course; snap.

    Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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    Crosswords: Space

    English words defined with "space": absolute spaceblank spaceClearance space, crawl spacedeep space, disc space, disk spaceenclosed space, Euclidean spaceHair space, Hilbert spaceintergalactic space, interplanetary space, interstellar spaceliving spacenull spaceouter spaceparking space, pericardial space, pleural spaceRoom and spacespace age, space biology, space capsule, space helmet, space medicine, Space of four dimensions, space program, space rocket, space vehicle, storage space, subarachnoid space, swap spacetopological spacevisual space. (references)
    Specialty definitions using "space": address space, air space, Annular Space, Annulus, Aston dark space, asymptotic space complexityBanach space, buffer spacechip space, CIE 1964 uniform color space, CIE 1964 uniform colour space, cislunar space, closed ro-ro cargo space, CONDITIONED SPACE, CONDITIONED SPACE, DIRECTLYdeep space network, DIRECTLY CONDITIONED SPACE, dwell spaceen space, Epidural Space, Extracellular Spacefigure space, flat address space, flight spaceGoddard Space Flight Centerhead space, head space in a bottle of wine, Hubble Space Telescopeintercellular space, inter-pleural spaceKennedy Space Centerlinear address space, linear spaceMarshall Space Flight Center, memory address space, motion spaceNational Space Science Data Center, normed spaceOccupied Space, Orthodontic Space Closureparotid space, periodically unattended machinery space, phase space, physiologic dead spaceReserved Freight Space, respiratory dead space, Retroperitoneal Space, retropubic spacesegmented address space, service space, space assignment, space between paragraphs, Space Charge, space clerk, space complexity, SPACE IMAGING, space leak, space motion, space photography, space polar coordinates, Space Potential, space reddening, SPACE SCHEDULER, space sickness, Space Simulation, space simulator, space suit, Space tether, space time space switch, space tracking, Space weather, spoiler space, Stennis Space CenterTether, space, time space time switch, translunar space, tucking space, Tuple Space SmalltalkUNCONDITIONED SPACEvelocity space, virtual space. (references)
    Etymologies containing "space": Triduan. (references)

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    Modern Usage: Space

    DomainUsage

    Screenplays

    Those fold-outs take a tremendous amount of space up, and I need space (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman)

    But I guess I'd say if it is just us seems like an awful waste of space. (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

    I heard two noises coming from two sperate areas of space over there (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez)

    This is my dance space. This is your dance space (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein)

    He's a man from outer space and we're taking him to his spaceship (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

    Lyrics

    Is the space we'll fill with time (The Space Between; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

    And I'm out in a space where nobody else can stay (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

    She had a pretty face but her head was up in space (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

    Gimme your time, your love, your space, your energy (Bring It All To Me; performing artist: Blaque)

    I need space (Overprotected; performing artist: Britney Spears)

    Clever

    Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives. (references; author: unknown)

    Life just gives you time and space. It's up to you to fill it. (references; author: unknown)

    Space is a dangerous place, especially if it's between your ears! (references; author: unknown)

    Movie/TV Titles

    Death in Space (1974)

    Inner Space (1974)

    Martian Space Party (1972)

    Computer Space (1971)

    Tom Smothers' Organic Prime Time Space Ride (1971)

    Song Titles

    Lost In Space (performing artist: The Nick Atoms)

    Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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    Commercial Usage: Space

    DomainTitle

    References

    • Asia pacific Space Telecom Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    • Space Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    • Loral Space & Communications Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    • The 2001 Report on Guided Missiles and Space Vehicles: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

    • The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Guided Missiles and Space Vehicles: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

      (more reference examples)

      

    Books

    • Deep Space Nine Mission: Gamma Book Three Cathedral (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) (reference)

    • Finishing Basements and Attics: Ideas and Projects for Expanding Your Living Space (Black & Decker Home Improvement Library) (reference)

      (more book examples)

      

    Periodicals

      

    Theater & Movies

    • Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 56: Fascination (reference)

    • VeggieTales - Larry-Boy and the Fib From Outer Space (reference)

    • Emmanuelle in Space - One Last Fling (reference)

    • Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 17: The Forsaken (reference)

    • The IMAX Space Collection (Hail Columbia/The Dream Is Alive/Blue Planet/Destiny in Space/Mission to Mir) (reference)

      (more DVD examples; more video examples)

      

    Music

      

    High Tech

      

    Consumer Goods

    Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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    Image Slideshow: Space

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    Photo Album: Space

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    Shown is the Boy Scout Building located at Cedar Lane and Wisconsin Avenue in which the NIH leases office space. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

    The photo shows a model of the Children's Inn in an overhead shot from the front. The model includes the Inn itself, a parking lot and surrounding space and trees. The Children's Inn houses families of children undergoing treatment at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

    Histopathology of lung shows numerous extracellular yeasts of Cryptococcus neoformans within an alveolar space. Yeasts show narrow-base budding and characteristic variation in size. Credit: CDC.

    Seattle at nightfall, from top of Space Needle. Credit: CDC.

    Space Shuttle Atlantis EVA. Credit: NASA.

    MK-III Space Suit. Credit: NASA.

    Fall Foliage from Space. Credit: NASA.

    Australia from Space in All Her Olympic Glory. Credit: NASA.

    Endeavour is Delivered to the Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA.

    Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Test Firing. Credit: NASA.

    Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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    Digital Photo Gallery: Space
     

    "Space Needle at Night" by Heather Laidlaw
    Commentary: "Some neon by the Space Needle in Seattle."
    "Space Needle" by Sarah Benton
    Commentary: "Space Needle from a different view."

    Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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    Sounds Captioned with "Space".

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    Space mystery style television show excerpt.Vapid space sound.
    Space bounce.
    Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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    Familiar Quotations: Space

    AuthorQuotation

    Charles Lamb

    Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.

    Democritus

    The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

    Doris Lessing

    Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

    Francois de Malherbe

    And a rose, she lived as roses do, the space of a morn.

    Joseph Joubert

    Space is the stature of God.

    Lao-Tzu

    For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

    Philip Johnson

    Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

    Steven Wright

    A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."

    Walt Whitman

    To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

    Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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    Historic Usage: Space

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    Winston S. Churchill

    1946

    God has willed that this shall not be and we have at least a breathing space to set our house in order before this peril has to be encountered: and even then, if no effort is spared, we should still possess so formidable a superiority as to impose effective deterrents upon its employment, or threat of employment, by others. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

    Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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    Use in Literature: Space

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    Sylvie and Bruno

    Carroll, Lewis

    And his great generous soul seemed so filled with noble ambition as to have no space left for any vain regret or selfish repining

    A Christmas Carol

    Dickens, Charles

    The parlour was the space behind the screen of rags

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams

    "It's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelegeuse about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was little." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen!"

    Scarlet Letter

    Hawthorne, Nathaniel

    Most persons, owing to causes which I may not have space to hint at, suffer moral detriment from this peculiar mode of life

    Les Miserables

    Hugo, Victor

    On all sides was space.

    Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    Joyce, James

    The stars began to crumble and a cloud of fine stardust fell through space.

    Grapes of Wrath

    Steinbeck, John

    Ma piled the pots in a small space.

    Walden

    Thoreau, Henry David

    Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.

    Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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    Non-Fiction Usage: Space

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    Health

    In the front of the eye is a space called the anterior chamber. (references)

    Due to space limitations these sources are listed in a concise manner. (references)

    Some atoms give off radiation, which is energy that travels through space. (references)

    Business

    BTC pays Transtel for hub and Panamsat space segment usage. (references)

    Equipment was chosen based on blueprints of future office space. (references)

    The concept of shared facilities and common space has been accepted. (references)

    Children

    Ethiopia

    There is space in institutions of higher education for only a small percentage of these graduates. (references)

    Kyrgyz Republic

    Children who were found were sent to orphanages and police holding centers, depending on the amount of space available. (references)

    Iceland

    Building regulations also specify that elevators in such buildings should be large enough to accommodate wheelchairs and that 1 percent of parking spaces (a minimum of one space) should be reserved for disabled use. (references)

    Civil Liberties

    Georgia

    Organizations that are not registered may not rent office space or import literature, among other activities. (references)

    Slovenia

    The election law requires the media to offer free space and broadcasting time to political parties at election time. (references)

    Morocco

    In addition the Government provides subsidies to the rest of the press through price supports for newsprint and office space. (references)

    Economic History

    Oman

    Commercial office space is readily available in Oman. (references)

    Japan

    The major ad companies control ad space, as with the other media. (references)

    Korea

    The indoor exhibition hall has a floor space of 26,446 square meters. (references)

    Human Rights

    Madagascar

    Prison cells average less than 1 square yard of space per inmate. (references)

    Chile

    Those with sufficient funds often can rent space in a better wing of the prison. (references)

    Panama

    Pretrial detainees must share cells with sentenced prisoners, in part due to lack of space. (references)

    Political Economy

    ECUADOR

    The labor code prohibits discrimination against unions and requires that employers provide space for union activities. (references)

    Nepal

    In December 1999, the hijacking of an Indian airliner as it left Nepali air space caused a downturn in bilateral relations. (references)

    Kenya

    In response to this pressure, members of the National Assembly established an Inter-Parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG), which formulated a number of reforms