abstract space

American  

noun

Mathematics.

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

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Example Sentences

“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 the early scenes especially, the story seems to take place in a timeless, almost abstract space, like the films Ingmar Bergman shot with only a handful of actors on the Swedish island of Fårö.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2019

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

From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2013

The blank, abstract space this creature inhabits calls our attention to the fanciful nature of the movie itself, as it begins to conjure an antic, improbable world out of nothing.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2011

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