free space

Related to free space: Free Space Optics, Dropbox

free space

In physics, an area of space that has no gravitational or electromagnetic fields. I totally failed that physics test on free space.
See also: free, space
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (as) free as (the) air
  • free as air/as a bird
  • (as) free as a bird
  • free as a bird
  • a free lunch
  • free lunch
  • the only free cheese is in the mousetrap
  • You don't get for nothing
  • there's no such thing as a free lunch
  • footloose
References in periodicals archive
A Novel wireless architecture for WLAN based on Radio over Free Space Optics technology and its spectrum assignment function.
A final, and more recent intervention into the free space literature to be considered here comes from Carlsson and Manning (2010) in their formulation of nowtopias.
The team's paper, titled 'Spatially Structured Photons that Travel in Free Space Slower than the Speed of Light', is published in Science Express, which provides electronic publication of selected papers in advance of print in the journal Science.
A Hall sensor (Lakeshore HGCT-3020) is located at the center of the inner free space to measure the [B.sub.z] field component.
We evaluate absolute [[epsilon].sup.abs.sub.cp]([k.sub.f], [k.sub.b]) and relative [[epsilon].sup.rel.sub.cp]([k.sub.f], [k.sub.b]) free-space support jump on ground-truth interface input points p [member of] P(SUR(S)), input points located in ground-truth free space p [member of] P(FREE(S)), and input points located in ground-truth full space p [member of] P(FULL(S)).
Changing a carrier frequency of the link updates the Free Space Path Loss block.
Free-space path loss is the loss in signal strength that results from a line-of-sight path through free space, does not include the gain of the antennas used at the transmitter and receiver, is proportional to the square of the distance between the transmitter and receiver, and also proportional to the square of Iridium operational frequency.
That Microsoft Surface RT tablets have less than the advertised free space has been a well-known fact.
With every huge building we not only lose the free spaces which truly serve as the lungs of Bahrain, but also inject unimaginable damage into the environment.
Intended for communications engineers, this introductory technical work on free space optical (FSO) networks examines the technologies and potential benefits and pitfalls involved in the development of laser last-mile communications devices.
Their current version of Diskeeper pushed the envelope far out ahead of current technology by preventing much of the fragmentation before it could happen and also enabling the recapture of bloated free space. The company has revealed the imminent release of a new version of Diskeeper for 2011 that not only prevents more fragmentation than ever before - even on the largest and busiest servers - but also instantly eliminates the rest before it can become a performance liability.
Have players write the bean names above in each square of their card (except the "free space").
It is possible to use edge components, as long as there is enough free space to support the PCB.
The company chose the Canobeam DT-130 Free Space Optics Transceiver, from Canon U.S.A., which provides secure, wireless 1.25-Gbps data transmission for Gigabit Ethernet networking.
Particles inside a nucleus weigh slightly less than the same particles in free space, new research shows.