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English

 namespace on Wikipedia

Etymology

Compound of name +‎ space.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈneɪmspeɪs/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: name‧space

Noun

namespace (plural namespaces)

  1. (programming) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.

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Verb

namespace (third-person singular simple present namespaces, present participle namespacing, simple past and past participle namespaced)

  1. (programming) To categorize by placing into a namespace.
    • 2004, Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference:
      Something I haven't captured in this schema is that the GEDCOM spec also says the structure is extensible; arbitrary namespaced elements may be inserted []
    • 2007, Jonathan Snook, Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge, Dan Webb, Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries:
      Although the excessive namespacing might seem like a hassle, there's always a really quick way to create a shortcut.
    • 2007, Jon Arking, Professional Windows Live Programming:
      SOAP adheres to extensive namespacing and attribute specification tags.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English namespace.

Pronunciation

Noun

namespace m (plural namespaces)

  1. (programming) namespace (abstract space of keywords)
    Synonym: espaço de nomes