hollow space

collocation in English

meaningsofhollowandspace

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hollow
adjective
uk
/ˈhɒl.əʊ/us
/ˈhɑː.loʊ/
having a hole or empty ...
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space
noun
uk
/speɪs/us
/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofhollowandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Interestingly, the mature fruiting bodies consisted of a dome-like shell of several layers of densely packed cells covering a non-fluorescenthollowspace.
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The figurine's turban is wrapped around the head a minimum of three times it was designed to create ahollowspace, exposing the back of the neck.
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The walls of the coal shell were about 3/8 inch thick, creating ahollowspaceinside sufficient to hold 34 ounces of gunpowder.
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Thehollowspaceunder the building wings enables wind to build up its force, and thus the environment on the slab is unfriendly.
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Thishollowspaceis crafted with self replicating machine excavators.
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A cavity resonator, usually used in reference to electromagnetic resonators, is one in which waves exist in ahollowspaceinside the device.
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During the 19th and 20th centuries, more specific messages were attached to the clubs or inserted into ahollowspace.
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The engulfed material eventually burns or decays away, but ends up leaving ahollowspacewith the original shape.
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Because of thehollowspaceresonating beneath, movement of trains on the inner tracks was accompanied by loud rumbling noises.
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Thehollowspaceof the cave was filled with this mineral-rich hot water and remained filled for about 500,000 years.
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These caskets contain more or less complex, usually invisible opening mechanisms which reveal a smallhollowspaceon opening.
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Underneath the bell tower (1731) standing aside from the actual church, is ahollowspace, which however, had never been explored.
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Thehollowspaceof the middle ear has also been called the tympanic cavity, or "cavum tympani".
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The hollow spaces left when the creatures dissolved were filled with silicate in solution.
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The top, sides and bottom of the flow cooled and solidified, while lava in the middle flowed out, leaving ahollowspaceto form the cave.
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The fruit contains hollow spaces full of seeds and moisture, called locular cavities.
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His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces.
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Note that the above solids do not float in air because the hollow spaces in them become filled with air.
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The activated charcoal used in conventional ultracapacitors has many small hollow spaces of various size, which create together a large surface to store electric charge.
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There were hollow spaces in the neck and anterior back vertebrae.
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