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Hyperspace
Filled with the latest astronomical findings and accompanied by gorgeous full-color photographs, a fascinating foray into space discusses new theories and discoveries and covers every aspect of our universe.

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\Hy"per*space\, n. [Pref. hyper- + space.] (Geom.)
An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
 
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/hi:'per-spays/ A memory location that is *far* away from where the program counter should be pointing, often inaccessible because it is not even mapped in. (Compare jump off into never-never land.)

This usage is from the SF notion of a spaceship jumping "into hyperspace", that is, taking a shortcut through higher-dimensional space - in other words, bypassing this universe. The variant "east hyperspace" is recorded among CMU and Bliss hackers.

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