Definitions

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  • noun philosophy A space transcending ordinary physical space, such as cyberspace.
  • noun computing theory The conceptual space occupied by metaobjects.

Etymologies

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meta- +‎ space

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Examples

  • The MetaMap takes the form of a subway map, using the metaphor of helping users navigate in "metaspace", the environment of metadata.

    Archive 2003-04-13 David Bigwood 2003

  • Keith Walsh: Stealth Space | Walsh, whose exhibition includes a life-size metaspace vehicle, sculptures, collages, and drawings created from the fragments collected during his interspatial wanderings, best describes the exhibition in the following way: The Stealth Space exhibition engages the dialectic between the near and far, and what is mediated versus seen and experienced through the body.

    Bill Bush: Finding Common Ground Through Art: This Artweek.LA (August 1-7) Bill Bush 2011

  • Keith Walsh: Stealth Space | Walsh, whose exhibition includes a life-size metaspace vehicle, sculptures, collages, and drawings created from the fragments collected during his interspatial wanderings, best describes the exhibition in the following way: The Stealth Space exhibition engages the dialectic between the near and far, and what is mediated versus seen and experienced through the body.

    Bill Bush: Finding Common Ground Through Art: This Artweek.LA (August 1-7) Bill Bush 2011

  • Keith Walsh: Stealth Space | Walsh, whose exhibition includes a life-size metaspace vehicle, sculptures, collages, and drawings created from the fragments collected during his interspatial wanderings, best describes the exhibition in the following way: The Stealth Space exhibition engages the dialectic between the near and far, and what is mediated versus seen and experienced through the body.

    Bill Bush: Finding Common Ground Through Art: This Artweek.LA (August 1-7) Bill Bush 2011

  • Also what do you think of metaspace and their ability to embed worlds in websites?

    Training Dublin City University in Second Life 2009

  • Keith Walsh: Stealth Space | Walsh, whose exhibition includes a life-size metaspace vehicle, sculptures, collages, and drawings created from the fragments collected during his interspatial wanderings, best describes the exhibition in the following way: The Stealth Space exhibition engages the dialectic between the near and far, and what is mediated versus seen and experienced through the body.

    Bill Bush: Finding Common Ground Through Art: This Artweek.LA (August 1-7) Bill Bush 2011

  • In "Harmony in Red (La desserte)" (1908), for instance, we see the beginning of what the art historian Jack Flam called Matisse's "metaspace."

    The Most Beautiful Show In The World 2008

  • Then I wonder, what rigor or real understanding underlies the notion of the metaspace or whatever that holds the various universes.

    Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008

  • greglas: meatspace = metaspace but the links themselves seem to be functioning OK..

    Ludotopian 2009

  • I can’t resist suggesting an alternative phraesology “in meatspace or in metaspace”.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Internet, The Fourth Amendment, and Technology Neutrality: A Response to Horowitz 2010

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