tablespace
noun
tablespace is a noun meaning “A storage location where the actual data underlying the objects in a database can be kept” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-B-L-E-S-P-A-C-E, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tablespace is tablespaces.
What does tablespace mean?
noun
- 1
A storage location where the actual data underlying the objects in a database can be kept.
The tablespace provides a layer of abstraction between physical and logical data.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tablespace
- tablespaces plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tablespace?
Tablespace appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does tablespace come from?
From table + space.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).