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white space

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noun

  1. the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space.

    White space is as effective in a layout as type.

Etymology

Origin of white space

First recorded in 1840–50

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