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prespace

prespace adjective: of a civilization: having yet to develop space travel.

Adjective

prespace (not comparable)

  1. Of a civilization: having yet to develop space travel.
    • "No way to tell now," Miram admitted. "Lots of space junk around the second planet, though. Could be native, an example of a prespace culture making the transition, but the debris could also be the results of a mining operation or something else I have no frame of reference for."2016, Evan Currie, Warrior King, Seattle, O.R.: 47North, →ISBN, page 233

Noun

prespace (plural prespaces)

  1. Any of various theoretical states of physical existence that precede or underlie three-dimensional space.
    • To speak of "the space of three dimensions" (represented abstractly as a coordinate grid), or "space occupied by matter posihoned within it," is to speak about the product aspect. The process aspect is the "prespace" of transition in presencing.1994, Daniel Athearn, Scientific Nihilism: On the Loss and Recovery of Physical Explanation, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 325
    • Our prequantum space — prespace — is essentially larger than the ordinary classical space.2005, Metod Saniga, Rosolino Buccheri, Avshalom C Elitzur, Endophysics, Time, Quantum And The Subjective

Examples of prespace in a sentence

  • This was a spatially and temporally unbounded sea of fluctuating virtual energies: the prespace of the actualized universe.2008, Ervin László, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World, Rochester, V.T.: Inner...
  • They considered spacetime itself as part of an explicate order that is connected to an implicate order that they called prespace.2016, Brother Abaris ·, The Illuminist Army:

Forms of prespace

pluralprespaces

Origin of prespace

From pre- + space.

Questions about prespace

What does prespace mean?
Prespace means of a civilization: having yet to develop space travel.
How do you use prespace in a sentence?
This was a spatially and temporally unbounded sea of fluctuating virtual energies: the prespace of the actualized universe.
What part of speech is prespace?
Prespace can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near prespace in the dictionary

  1. presorting
  2. presorts
  3. presos
  4. presowing
  5. Prespa
  6. prespace
  7. prespaced
  8. prespacetime
  9. prespawning
  10. prespecific
  11. prespecification

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