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countable and uncountable, plural nonspaces
That which is not a social or physical space, or lacks the traditional attributes of spaces. quotations examples
Today, the elevator cars of skyscrapers themselves have become the most intimidating nonspaces of the American metropolis.
1986, Norbert Messler, The art deco skyscraper in New York
(computing) A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace). quotations examples
For instance, spaces in a filename shipped from a DOS client are not translated to nonspace characters...
2006, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, Volume 10