deep space

deep space
noun
any region in space outside the solar system
Hypernyms: ↑region, ↑part
Part Holonyms: ↑outer space, ↑space

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I. noun
: the effect especially in painting of an uninterrupted view into great distance — compare stage space
II. noun
: space well outside the earth's atmosphere and especially that part lying beyond the earth-moon system

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deep-space, adj.
space beyond the limits of the solar system. Also called outer space.
[1950-55]

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deep space noun
The area of space beyond the moon's orbit
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deep space,
space beyond the earth and the moon (as distinguished from outer space in the sense of the space immediately beyond the earth's atmosphere). »

Laws will have to be drawn up to regulate travel by human beings…in so-called deep space (New Yorker).

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n. another term for outer space

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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