Nonspace

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    That which is not a social or physical space, or lacks the traditional attributes of spaces. countable, uncountable

    "Today, the elevator cars of skyscrapers themselves have become the most intimidating nonspaces of the American metropolis."

  2. 2
    A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace). countable, uncountable

    "For instance, spaces in a filename shipped from a DOS client are not translated to nonspace characters..."

Example

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"Today, the elevator cars of skyscrapers themselves have become the most intimidating nonspaces of the American metropolis."

Etymology

From non- + space.

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