codespace

English

Etymology

code +‎ space

Pronunciation
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Noun

codespace (plural codespaces)

  1. (computing) A range or region that defines the lower and upper bounds for an encoding.
    Coordinate term: codepage
    • 2001, Adobe Systems, PDF Reference:
      A codespace range is specified by a pair of codes of some particular length giving the lower and upper bounds of that range.
    • 2008, David Salomon, A Concise Introduction to Data Compression:
      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).
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