space
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- noun
- /speɪs/
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- The musical staff includes five lines and four spaces that represent different pitches.
- lines and spaces
Examples
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It fills out the musical space of the band, you know.
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To read music, you must learn the notes that correspond to the spaces in the staff.
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Music is beautiful only if there is space between the notes.
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I think it's a very bad one, but it's basically music is the space between the notes.
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"The lines on a staff are the 'floors of an apartment'; the spaces on the staff are the 'apartments.'
Academic text (1996) -
Sometimes, an interesting effect can be achieved by mounting the prints with spaces left between them.
Academic text (1996) -
In music theory, the spaces between the lines on a staff indicate the notes A, C, E, and G.
Idioms
Compounds
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131
3.9
A large place built in space where people live and work for science
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3.0
The area beyond Earth's air where there is almost no air and you find stars and planets
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4.2
A reusable vehicle with wings that carries people and cargo to space and returns to Earth
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5.7
A low narrow space under the main floor of a building that people use to reach pipes and wires
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4.2
A machine sent into space without people to study planets and send information back
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8.1
A four-dimensional framework that joins space and time where events happen
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3.5
A machine built to travel in outer space, like a spacecraft or satellite
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4.2
A small spacecraft that carries people in space and returns to Earth
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6.0
The space between stars that contains gas, dust, and small particles
- Literature
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6.3
Science fiction stories with big adventures and drama set in outer space between fighting empires
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3.6
A United States government agency that runs the country's space program and studies air and space
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4.3
A protective head covering astronauts wear to breathe and stay safe in space
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4.9
A spacecraft in orbit where people live and do science experiments
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9.9
A space where each axis shows one thing that can change to describe a system's state
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8.2
The thin space between the two layers around the lungs that holds a little fluid
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9.9
A mathematical space, often with infinitely many dimensions, where you measure distance and define right angles like in geometry
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5.8
A former part of the United States Air Force that managed military space and missile operations
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9.6
Space that exists by itself and stays the same no matter what is in it
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8.2
A group of points that follows simple rules used in geometry and other math
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7.3
The space around the brain and spinal cord that holds the clear fluid that cushions them
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9.9
A set of points with a rule that says which groups of points are open
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7.6
A space with flat geometry and a fixed number of dimensions, like a flat plane or room
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9.9
A set of points with a rule that gives a distance between any two points like on a map
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7.7
A space with no air movement between layers that helps keep heat in or out
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5.5
Study of how outer space affects living things and search for life elsewhere
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8.9
A way of showing data using a few important numbers to study or compare it
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6.2
A part of the hard drive used as extra memory when computer memory is full
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8.0
A three-dimensional pattern of points showing where tiny particles like atoms sit in a crystal
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A space between the two layers around the heart that holds fluid to let the heart move smoothly
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Physical laws do not change when left and right are swapped
Surface Forms
Etymology
Space comes from the Latin word spatium, meaning 'room' or 'interval', and in music it was used for the 'rooms' between the lines of the staff. So each musical 'space' is the area between lines that holds a specific note.