spacing
English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]spacing
- present participle and gerund of space
Noun
[edit]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.
- 2011 August 2, Keith Brindley, Starting Electronics[1], page 18:
- If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.
- (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.
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[edit]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
[edit]spacing (not comparable)
- That inserts space between two objects.
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