non-breaking space
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space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position
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Encyclopedic overview
In word processing and digital typesetting, a non-breaking space ( ), also called NBSP, required space, hard space, or fixed space (in most typefaces, it is not of fixed width), is a space character that prevents an automatic line break at its position. In some formats, including HTML, it also prevents consecutive whitespace characters from collapsing into a single space. Non-breaking space characters with other widths also exist.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “non-breaking space” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.