American English pronunciation

How to pronounce spaces

IPA transcription: [s'peɪsəz]

Pronunciation variants: [s'peɪsəz][s'peɪsɪz]

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Noun

  • the unlimited expanse in which everything is located

    “they tested his ability to locate objects in space”

    “the boundless regions of the infinite”

  • 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”

  • an area reserved for some particular purpose

    “the laboratory's floor space”

  • any location outside the Earth's atmosphere

    “the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether”

    “the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth”

  • a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing

    “he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet”

  • the interval between two times

    “the distance from birth to death”

    “it all happened in the space of 10 minutes”

  • a blank area

    “write your name in the space provided”

  • one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff

    “the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E”

  • (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences

Verb

  • place at intervals

    “Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates”

Usage examples

  • The college decided to ebb their plan for increasing their parking spaces.
  • The college decided to ebb their plan for increasing their parking spaces.
  • In general the intersection of arbitrary half-spaces need not be bounded.
  • The RiverCenter is one of the most technologically advanced performance spaces in the state.
  • This helped artists buy buildings and convert them into useful spaces.
  • Also, the differential of a local diffeomorphism is a linear isomorphism of tangent spaces.
  • The same construction can be applied also to real Hilbert spaces.
  • Also, the moduli spaces of those theories should be isomorphic.
  • The next week, the song dropped down eight spaces to number thirty-four.
  • Truncate the spaces before and after the text.