Space accidents and incidents — Space accidents, either during operations or training for spaceflights, have killed 22 astronauts (five percent of all people who have been in space, two percent of individual spaceflights), and a much larger number of ground crew. This article… … Wikipedia
Space charge — is a concept in which excess electric charge is treated as a continuum of charge distributed over a region of space (either a volume or an area) rather than distinct point like charges. This model typically applies when charge carriers have been… … Wikipedia
Space (punctuation) — In writing, a space ( ) is a blank area that is devoid of content, which separates words, letters, numbers, and punctuation. Conventions for interword and intersentence spaces vary among languages, and in some cases the spacing rules are quite… … Wikipedia
Separating axis theorem — For objects lying in a plane (2 dimensional space), the separating axis theorem states that the projection of two convex shapes onto some line will be separate if and only if they are not intersecting. The line for which the objects have disjoint … Wikipedia
Space hierarchy theorem — In computational complexity theory, the space hierarchy theorems are separation results that show that both deterministic and nondeterministic machines can solve more problems in (asymptotically) more space, subject to certain conditions. For… … Wikipedia
Space Exploration Initiative — For other uses, see SEI (disambiguation). Artistic Conception of Space Station Freedom with the STS Orbiter Vehicle Alan Chinchar s 1991 rendition of for NASA On July 20, 1989, the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, George H. W. Bush … Wikipedia
space — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French espace, space, from Latin spatium area, room, interval of space or time Date: 14th century 1. a period of time; also its duration 2. a. a limited extent in one, two, or … New Collegiate Dictionary
Separating — Separate Sep a*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Separated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Separating}.] [L. separatus, p. p. of separare to separate; pfref. se aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See {Parade}, and cf. {Sever}.] 1. To disunite; to divide; to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Separating set — In mathematics a set of functions S from a set D to a set C is called a separating set for D or said to separate the points of D if for any two distinct elements x and y of D , there exists a function f in S so that f ( x ) ≠ f ( y ). Examples *… … Wikipedia
separating medium — any substance which facilitates separation, such as a coating used upon a surface that serves to prevent adherence to it of another surface; in dentistry, a substance applied to the investment surface of a denture flask to protect the resin from… … Medical dictionary