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codespace

codespace noun: a range or region that defines the lower and upper bounds for an encoding.

Noun

codespace (plural codespaces)

  1. A range or region that defines the lower and upper bounds for an encoding.
    • A codespace range is specified by a pair of codes of some particular length giving the lower and upper bounds of that range.2001, Adobe Systems, PDF Reference
    • Most of the characters in common use fit into the first 64K code points, a region of the codespace that's called the basic multilingual plane (BMP).2008, David Salomon, A Concise Introduction to Data Compression

Forms of codespace

pluralcodespaces

Origin of codespace

From code + space.

Questions about codespace

What does codespace mean?
Codespace means a range or region that defines the lower and upper bounds for an encoding.
What part of speech is codespace?
Codespace is a noun.
What is the plural of codespace?
The plural of codespace is codespaces.

Words near codespace in the dictionary

  1. codesigners
  2. codesigning
  3. codesigns
  4. codesmith
  5. codesmiths
  6. codespace
  7. codespaces
  8. codestream
  9. codestreams
  10. codeswitch
  11. codeswitched

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