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antispace

antispace noun: a space or region that violates the norms or conventions of spaces.

Noun

antispace (countable and uncountable, plural antispaces)

  1. A space or region that violates the norms or conventions of spaces.
    • It is antispace, home of the enemy, a creature without a face or with the face of a beast.2005, Evgeny Dobrenko, Eric Naiman, The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space, page 90
    • The wilderness as antispace2008, Dag Øistein Endsjø, Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies, page 36
  2. A kind of topological space.
    • There exists a natural one to one mapping from the class of antispaces onto itself […]1968, Evert Wattel, The Compactness Operator in Set Theory and Topology

Adjective

antispace (not comparable)

  1. Against space.
    • Further, unlike nuclear power, with strong and organized pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear groups, there has never been a significant anti-space movement in the United States.1996, National Science Foundation, chapter 7, in Science and Engineering Indicators – 1996, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2015
    • Because of the importance of space superiority, the Air Force published new doctrine on 2 August 2004: Air Force Doctrine Document (AFDD) 2-2.1, Counterspace Operations. Gen John P. Jumper, US Air Force chief of staff, asserts that "space superiority is as much about protecting our space assets as...2004, Lt. Col. Paula B. Flavell, USAF, “AFDD 2-2.1, Counterspace Operations”, in Air & Space Power Journal, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2011

Examples of antispace in a sentence

  • […] disruptive capabilities, such as cyber warfare, directed energy weapons, biotechnology, or antispace systems, to marginalize U.S. power.2009, Amos A. Jordan with William J. Taylor, Jr., Michael J. Meese, and Suzanne C. Nielsen, American National Security, →ISBN, page 285:
  • To the sizable antispace contingent in Congress, Nixon promised an earnest effort to "minimize technical and economic risks"2012, Matthew H. Hersch, Inventing the American Astronaut, →ISBN, page 144:

Forms of antispace

pluralantispaces
alternative formanti-space

Origin of antispace

From anti- + space.

Questions about antispace

What does antispace mean?
Antispace means a space or region that violates the norms or conventions of spaces.
How do you use antispace in a sentence?
[…] disruptive capabilities, such as cyber warfare, directed energy weapons, biotechnology, or antispace systems, to marginalize U.S. power.
What part of speech is antispace?
Antispace can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of antispace?
The plural of antispace is antispaces.

Words near antispace in the dictionary

  1. antisolvent
  2. antisolvents
  3. antisonar
  4. antisovereignty
  5. antisoviet
  6. antispace
  7. antispaces
  8. antispam
  9. antispammer
  10. antispammers
  11. antispamming

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