nonspace
nounEtymology From non- + space.
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That which is not a social or physical space, or lacks the traditional attributes of spaces.
- Today, the elevator cars of skyscrapers themselves have become the most intimidating nonspaces of the American metropolis.1986, Norbert Messler, The art deco skyscraper in New York:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace).
- For instance, spaces in a filename shipped from a DOS client are not translated to nonspace characters...2006, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, Volume 10: