n. The general receptacle of things; roomn. as a character of the universen. as a cognition or psychological phenomenonn. as a mathematical system.n. The interval between any two or more objects, or between terminal points; distance; extent, as of surface: as, the space of a mile.n. The interval between two points of time; quantity of time; duration.n. A short time; a while.n. Hence, time in which to do something; respite; opportunity; leisure.n. A path; course (?).n. In printing, one of the blank types which separate the words in print. The thicknesses most used are one third, one fourth, and one fifth of the square body of the text-type.n. In musical notation, one of the degrees between the lines of the staff.n. In ornithology, an unfeathered place on the skin between pterylæ; an apterium, Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 87.To move at large; expatiate.To set at intervals; put a space between; specifically, in printing, to arrange the spaces and intervals in or between so that there may be no obvious disproportion: as, to space a paragraph; to space words, lines, or letters.To divide into spaces.To measure by paces.n. The clearance-space in a steam-engine cylinder between the head of the cylinder and the end of the piston when the crank is on its dead center.n. The difference between the readings of the mercurial thermometer when the temperature is rising and when it is falling, due in part to the change in the curvature of the meniscus and in part to the expansion of the bulb from the change in pressure of the vertical capillary column. The general effect is analogous to that of the dead motion of the micrometer-screw.n. Euclidean space.
