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abstract space

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noun

Mathematics.
  1. a space whose elements are not geometric points, especially a function space.


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One of her motifs was the theme of the current show: figures falling or flying through abstract space, which is often painted with expressionistic jags and bright swaths of color.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2020

“These were more emblems than descriptions: bold, rather clunky equine silhouettes embedded in flat, abstract space with the totemic air of cave paintings,” critic Robert Hughes wrote years later in Time magazine.

From Washington Post • May 23, 2020

In this abstract space, human minds form a tiny cluster.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2014

“Cyberspace” could describe the abstract space in which the conversations of people using Internet are happening.

From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2013

O—The last vowel sound symbolizes abstract space, the spirit assumes once more the garment of primordial matter; it is the Nirvana of eastern philosophy.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William

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