codespace

codespace

English

Etymology

code +‎ space

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

Noun

codespace (plural codespaces)

1. (computing) A range or region that defines the lower and upper bounds for an encoding.
   • 2001, Adobe Systems, PDF Reference

     A codespace range is specified by a pair of codes of some particular length giving the lower and upper bounds of that range.

   • 2008, David Salomon, A Concise Introduction to Data Compression

     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).