nonspace

nonspace

English

Etymology

non- +‎ space

Noun

nonspace (countable and uncountable, plural nonspaces)

1. That which is not a social or physical space, or lacks the traditional attributes of spaces.
   • 1986, Norbert Messler, The art deco skyscraper in New York

     Today, the elevator cars of skyscrapers themselves have become the most intimidating nonspaces of the American metropolis.

2. (computing) A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace).
   • 2006, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, Volume 10

     For instance, spaces in a filename shipped from a DOS client are not translated to nonspace characters...