spacing

English

Verb

spacing

1. present participle and gerund of space

Noun

spacing (countable and uncountable, plural spacings)

1. The action of the verb space.
2. 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.

3. The space between two objects or people.

   Put some more spacing between those two words to make them more readable.

4. (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

• bed spacing
• letterspacing

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

• Bulgarian: подреждане с разстояние (podreždane s razstojanie)
• Italian: spaziatura (it) f, interlinea (it) f (between lines of text)

the space between two objects or people

• Bulgarian: разстояние (bg) n (razstojanie)
• Italian: spaziatura (it) f, interlinea (it) f (between lines of text)

Adjective

spacing (not comparable)

1. 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

Anagrams

• pacings, scaping