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white_space

white space

See also: whitespace

English

Alternative forms

whitespace

Noun

white space ‎(plural white spaces)

White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).
(computer science) Any single character or series of characters that represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.

Synonyms

(computer science) whitespace character

Related terms

negative space

Translations

white area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page

Czech: bílé místo n
Finnish: tyhjä tila
German: Leerraum m

Icelandic: bil (is) n, hvítbil n

single character or series of characters

Czech: bílý znak m, bílé znaky m pl
Finnish: tyhjätilamerkki
German: Leerzeichen (de) n

Icelandic: bil (is) n, hvítbil n

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
braces ( { } )
brackets ( [ ] )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )

dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
ellipsis ( … )
exclamation mark ( ! )
fraction slash ( ⁄ )
guillemets ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
interpunct ( · )
interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
parentheses ( ( ) )
period (US) or full stop (UK) ( . )

question mark ( ? )

quotation marks (formal, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; )

slash (US) or stroke (UK) ( / )

space ( )