space.html - See: OUTER SPACE.

space.html - {n.}, {Space English} An unmanned spacecraft other than an Earth satellite fitted with instruments which gather and transmit information about other planets in the solar system (e.g., Venus, Mars, and Jupiter) on what are called fly-by missions, i.e., without the craft landing on any of these bodies. * /Both the U.S.A. and Russia have sent up many a space probe in the past decade./

space.html - {adj.}, {slang}, {informal} Having gaps in one's train of thought, confused, incoherent; resembling the behavior of someone who is under the influence of drugs. * /Joe's been acting funny lately - spaced out, you might say./

space.html - tle, Space Transportation System Space Transportation System (Science and Technology) see shuttle

space.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a a continuous unlimited area or expanse which may or may not contain objects etc. b an interval between one, two, or three-dimensional points or objects (a space of 10 metres). c an empty area; room (clear a space in the corner; occupies too much space).
2 a large unoccupied region (the wide open spaces).
3 = outer space.
4 an interval of time (in the space of an hour).
5 the amount of paper used in writing etc. (hadn't the space to discuss it).
6 a a blank between printed, typed, or written words, etc. b a piece of metal providing this.
7 Mus. each of the blanks between the lines of a staff.

--v.

tr.
1 set or arrange at intervals.
2 put spaces between (esp. words, letters, lines, etc. in printing, typing, or writing).
3 (as spaced adj.) (often foll. by out) sl. in a state of euphoria, esp. from taking drugs.

space age the era when space travel has become possible. space-bar a long key in a typewriter for making a space between words etc. space flight 1 a journey through space.
2 = space travel. space out put more or wider spaces or intervals between. space probe = PROBE n. 4. space rocket a rocket used to launch a spacecraft. space-saving occupying little space. space shuttle a rocket for repeated use esp. between the earth and a space station. space station an artificial satellite used as a base for operations in space. space-time (or space-time continuum) the fusion of the concepts of space and time, esp. as a four-dimensional continuum. space travel travel through outer space. space traveller a traveller in outer space; an astronaut. space vehicle = SPACECRAFT. space walk any physical activity by an astronaut in space outside a spacecraft.

spacer n. spacing n. (esp. in sense 2 of v.). [ME f. OF espace f. L spatium]

space.html - n.
a vehicle used for travelling in space.