codespace

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noun

A range or region that defines the lower and upper bounds for an encoding.

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Meanings

nouncodespace (plural codespaces)

plural codespaces

  1. computingA range or region that defines the lower and upper bounds for an encoding.

    A codespace range is specified by a pair of codes of some particular length giving the lower and upper bounds of that range.

    2001, Adobe Systems, PDF Reference
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    Most of the characters in common use fit into the first 64K code points, a region of the codespace that's called the basic multilingual plane (BMP).

    2008, David Salomon, A Concise Introduction to Data Compression

Origin

From code + space.

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APA

codespace. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/codespace

MLA

“codespace.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/codespace. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “codespace,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/codespace.

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