amount of space
collocation in Englishmeaningsofamountandspace
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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space
noun
uk/speɪs/us/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofamountandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofamount of space
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The study found that only a few of the books examined devoted a substantialamountofspaceto this topic.
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Typical behaviors of processes are speed, rate of convergence, cost,amountofspacerequired, and accuracy.
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A disadvantage is that often a largeamountofspaceand time is required to handle lazy data types properly.
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In the improved non-leaky machine presented below, an arbitrary prefix can be printed in a bounded (and small)amountofspace.
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The decision on what to include will depend on the underlying rationale of the work, not to mention theamountofspaceavailable.
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These graphs can be very simple or very complex, the complexity is function of theamountofspaceexplored and the level of discretization.
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The table shows the neededamountofspacein the heap, the trail, the environment stack and the choice point stack (in number of cells).
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Since these characters take up a largeamountofspace, it is not surprising that the music is dominated by their patter.
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The entire volume devotes a substantialamountofspaceto cover the history of previous injustices to different subject populations.
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Nevertheless, theamountofspacedevoted to them seems rather disproportionate.
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The final goal of heap profiling is to reduce theamountofspace(and perhaps time) needed to run a program.
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Theamountofspaceaccorded the two kinds of inquiry is almost equal.
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In this approach theamountofspacesearched (the graph) is reduced to the local environment in order to obtain real-time solutions.
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Only a smallamountofspaceis given to specifics of piano technique and most of the book would certainly be more generally applicable.
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A hadron facility requires a significantamountofspace, precluding building within many current hospital sites.
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However, the real problem is that evaluation requires an unboundedamountofspace.
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Second, theamountofspaceinside the building is much greater than in elite residences.
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This layout would have allotted a roughly equivalentamountofspaceto each voice, and an analysis of the composition's structure will reveal that this is certainly needed.
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Lazy data types allow infinite objects to be represented in a finiteamountofspace.
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