spacing
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Verb
spacing
- present participle and gerund of space
Noun
spacing (countable and uncountable, plural spacings)
- The action of the verb space.
- A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces.
- The spacing of the desks in the exam hall was intended to prevent candidates from copying each other's work.
- The space between two objects or people.
- Put some more spacing between those two words to make them more readable.
- (science fiction) The activity of working or living in outer space; the occupation of a spacer.
- 1949 February, Alfred Coppel, “Runaway”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 2 (Spring):
- He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky.
Hyponyms
- automatic spacing
- channel spacing
- echo spacing
- French spacing
- interframe spacing
- letterspacing
- measured spacing
- optical spacing
- segment long spacing
- train spacing
- word spacing
Derived terms
Related terms
- level spacing distribution
- self-spacing tile
- spacing effect
- spacing mark
- spacing mix
- zero spacing flux
Translations
a way in which objects or people are separated by spaces
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the space between two objects or people
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Adjective
spacing (not comparable)
- That inserts space between two objects.
Derived terms
- double-spacing
- letter-spacing
- line-spacing
- non-spacing
- nonspacing
- self-spacing
- single-spacing
- third-spacing
- triple-spacing
Related terms
- long-spacing sonic log
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