This set of all possible outputs for your matirx,whether it’s a line, a plane, 3-D space, whatever, is called the “column space” of your matrix.
The columns of your matrix tell you where the basis vectors land,and the span of those transformed basis vectors gives you all possible outputs.
Span of Columns == Column space
In other words, the column space is the span of the columns of your matrix.
So a more precise definition of rank would be that it’s the number of dimensions in the column space.
When this rank is as high as it can be, meaning it equals the number of columns,we call the matrix “full rank”.
Notice, the zero vector will always be included in the column sapce,since linear transformations must keep the origiin fixed in place.
总结起来就是:一个矩阵,里面的所有列,组成的Span 就是列空间