Spāçe1, n.
n. [Fr. espace, Pr. espaci, Sp. espacio, Pg. espaço, It. spazio, Lat. spatium, space, spatiari, to walk about.]
Sense 1. Extension, considered independently of any thing which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible; room; extension.
Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion. Locke.
Sense 2. A quantity or portion of extension; the interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills.
Sense 3. Quantity of time; also, the interval between two points of time. “Nine times the space that measures day and night.” Milton.
God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space for repentance. Tillotson.
Sense 4. A short time; a while. [Rare.] “To stay your deadly strife a space.” Spenser.
Sense 5. (Print.) (a.) The distance or interval between lines, or between words in the lines, as in books. (b.) A small piece of metal cast lower than a type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, used to separate words or letters.
Spaces are of different thicknesses, so as to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line.
Sense 6. (Mus.) One of the places between the lines of the staff.