'Euclidian space' definitions:

Definition of 'Euclidian space'

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  • Space \Space\ (sp[=a]s), n. [OE. space, F. espace, from L. spatium space; cf. Gr. spa^n to draw, to tear; perh. akin to E. span. Cf. Expatiate.]
  • 1. Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible. [1913 Webster]
  • Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Place, having more or less extension; room. [1913 Webster]
  • They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in]. --R. of Brunne. [1913 Webster]
  • While I have time and space. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile. [1913 Webster]
  • Put a space betwixt drove and drove. --Gen. xxxii. 16. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space." --R. of brunne. [1913 Webster]
  • Nine times the space that measures day and night. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A short time; a while. [R.] "To stay your deadly strife a space." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Print.) (a) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters. (b) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books, on a computer screen, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. that portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; -- called also outer space. [PJC]
  • Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc.
  • deep space, the part of outer space which is beyond the limits of the solar system.
  • Space line (Print.), a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead. --Hansard.
  • Space rule (Print.), a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Euclidian space'

From: GCIDE
  • Euclidian \Eu*clid"i*an\, n. Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid. [1913 Webster]
  • Euclidian space (Geom.), the kind of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also {flat space}, and homaloidal space. [1913 Webster]