workspacen.
/ˈwəːkspeɪs/, U.S. /ˈwərkˌspeɪs/ 1.
a. Space in which to work; a space in which work is done, (now sometimes) spec. a desk in an office with a computer terminal and keyboard (cf. workstation n. 3).
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society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > space to work
working rooma1651
working space1829
workspace1881
cube1988
1881 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Feb. 291/1 The students' working-room..contains separate work-space for 100 students.
1911 Photo-miniature June 396 The basement was built with double walls, and plenty of ventilation arranged for, affording large and comfortable work space.
1953 Berkeley (Calif.) Daily Gaz. 16 Nov. 16/7 Beautiful living room with beamed ceiling,..kitchen with lots of cupboards and good tiled workspace.
1999 Daily Tel. 8 Jan. 31/4 An extension of desk sharing through ‘hot desking’ and ‘hotelling’ where staff book a workspace in advance.
2001 J. Vacha Showtime in Cleveland iii. 69 Finding some workspace in a shop on Sheriff Street, he came up with the Gabriel automobile horn.
b. An area or building rented, sold, or used for business purposes.Sometimes used in the names of commercial developments consisting of buildings of this type.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > position or site for a business
stand1784
situs1950
workspace1974
greenfield2003
1974 Naples (Florida) Daily News 18 Nov. 8 c/1 (advt.) Warehouse..Light industrial Workspace centrally located,..paved parking [etc.].
1985 Guardian (Nexis) 4 Oct. The Community Business Convention 1985 will be held..at one of Glasgow's longest established community businesses, the Elderpark Workspace.
1991 Constr. Weekly 27 Mar. 7 (advt.) Mess rooms, offices, toilets,..double or treble storey units, Elliott Workspace have precisely what you need.
2013 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 16 Mar. (Commercial Real Estate section) 40 The refurbishment will transform the historic banking chamber into a state-of-the-art commercial workspace over 11 levels.
2. Computing.
a. = working memory n. (b) at working adj. Compounds.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > memory > used during processing
working space1829
buffer1948
working storage1954
workspace1959
buffer store1962
footprint1993
1959 New Scientist 25 June 1375/2 Such a code would mean building an automatic translating system into existing designs of computers, thereby reducing their ‘work-space’.
1979 G. D. Kraft & W. N. Toy Mini/Microcomputer Hardware Design viii. 413 Its general register set is placed in main storage and realized as a 16-word area of memory that is considered a workspace.
1985 Which Computer? Apr. 53/2 Even on a fully configured IBM PC..you can find yourself running out of workspace.
2004 M. E. Soper Absolute Beginner's Guide to A+ Certification vii. 215 When it's time for the CPU to process something, RAM..is the workspace it uses.
2010 R. Pratap Getting Started Matlab i. 11 The previously parsed (compiled) file is executing; matlab does not know about your changes. This can happen due to various reasons. The simple cure is, clear the workspace with clear all and execute your file.
b. In a graphical user interface: an area for performing a particular task.
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1977 Computerworld 14 Nov. 51/ The terminal's screen..consists of a workspace for graphics and a monitor area for user-computer communications.
1990 Computer Buyer's Guide & Handbk. 8 vi. 62/1 The basic workspace, controlled by the Workspace Manager, contains a row of icons on the right called the Dock, a menu on the upper left, and a window in the center labeled Directory Browser.
2013 Western Advocate (Nexis) 31 Aug. 17 Hover the cursor over the panel and you can type a reply and send it without having to grumpily dig down through all your workspace screens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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