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nonspace en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + space.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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:
2. (countable, uncountable) 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:

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