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spaceless

American  
[spays-lis] / ˈspeɪs lɪs /

adjective

  1. having no limits or dimensions in space; limitless; unbounded.

  2. occupying no space.


spaceless British  
/ ˈspeɪslɪs /

adjective

  1. having no limits in space; infinite or boundless

  2. occupying no space

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of spaceless

First recorded in 1600–10; space + -less


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I would vote to remove the ban and allow us to use or continue to use the little, free, almost spaceless plastic bags.

From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2016

Robert Hutchins, hold that "the supreme end of education is the possession of everlasting, timeless and spaceless principles of reality, truth, and value."

From Time Magazine Archive

Pass Through Mount Utsu, with its flattened, stylized mountain, green hills and brilliant red ivy tendrils hung against a spaceless ground of gold leaf, comes from a 10th century travel diary, the Tale of Ise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Non-material forces are, then, according to science, both spaceless and weightless.

From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by James H. (James Henry) Leuba

He had been lost in sleep, dreamless and spaceless; and now, without warning, his slumber had left him abruptly and for no reason that he could guess.

From Vistas of New York by Brander Matthews

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