Word Meanings - ESPACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Space. Chaucer.

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• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• SPACELESS
  Without space. Coleridge.
• SPACEFUL
  Wide; extensive. Sandys.
• DISPACE
  To roam. In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.
• HYPERSPACE
  An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
• ANCHOR SPACE
  In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
• ESPACE
  Space. Chaucer.
• INTERSPACE
  Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.
• CROOKES SPACE
  The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.