🧠 Mental room 🫙 Space in container

headspace

1 6.1

Space left at the top of a jar or bottle before it is closed

noun
/ˈhɛdˌspeɪs/

Specialized

: espacio libre

When canning, it is important to leave enough headspace in the jar to allow for expansion during sealing.
inch headspace
leaving headspace
1/2-inch headspace

And all they did, they tested the headspace and said it was petrol and they actually did him on that.

Examples

In the first part, a high-capacity extraction method based on HSSE has been optimized to analyze spent cartridges' headspaces in the most exhaustive way.

Academic text (2016)
Since wine bottles are heavy, they are usually packed at the bottom of the shipping container, which leaves a good amount of headspace above it.

Blog text (8)
And all they did, they tested the headspace and said it was petrol and they actually did him on that.

Anything Goes With James English
It's put both candles out so that we're going to fill up the headspace here with carbon dioxide.
Then, special glass inserts were introduced to the headspace in order to accommodate the stir bars.

Academic text (2016)
In addition, we did not examine four water samples because of unacceptable headspace volume and/or freezing of vials.

Academic text (2012)
As this study showed, the headspace is prone to excessive heat fluxes, so by insulating the shipping containers, this increase in temperature of the headspace can be mitigated.

Blog text (8)
As this study showed, the headspace is prone to excessive heat fluxes, so by insulating the shipping containers, this increase in temperature of the headspace can be mitigated.

Blog text (8)
In this work, the potential of providing helpful evidence about the time since discharge of 9mm handgun cartridges through the analysis of their headspace has been thoroughly investigated using highly efficient analytical and statistical techniques.

Academic text (2016)
We added stable isotopically labeled analogs of the compounds of interest to 3 g of blood and 5 mL of water and sealed each sample in a 10-mL headspace vial.

Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

ullage

vsheadspace

Specialized

1 9.9

The empty space left in a bottle or tank when it is not full

describes the empty area at the top before sealing, not just measurement

Antonyms

fullness

10 2.7

A state in which something has as much inside as it can hold

Surface Forms

headspace singular

headspaces plural

Morphology

headspace = head + space (transparent) = head + space

Literal compound meaning 'space at the head/top' of a container; the components directly yield the sense in packaging contexts.

Etymology

Headspace is a simple compound made from head ('top') and space ('empty area'), so it names the small empty area left at the top of a jar or bottle before sealing.