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(1) In digital electronics, a 0 bit. Contrast with mark.

(2) The trendy word that started in the 1990s for area or field of endeavor. For example, the phrase "we are involved in the videoconferencing space" refers simply to the videoconferencing industry. To many, this sounds more chic than using a word such as "field," "arena" or "industry."

(character)space - The space character, ASCII 32.

See octal forty.


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For technical reasons, the mathematical spaces represented by such pairs of solutions are called mirror manifolds.
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