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sub⋅space

[suhb-speys]
–noun
1. a smaller space within a main area that has been divided or subdivided: The jewelry shop occupies a subspace in the hotel's lobby.
2. Mathematics.
a. a subset of a given space.
b. Also called linear manifold. a subset of a vector space which is itself a vector space.
c. a subset of a topological space, having the relative topology.

Origin:
1925–30; sub- + space
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subspace

noun
a space that is contained within another space 
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