spacing

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spacing

  1. present participle and gerund of space

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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.

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spacing (not comparable)

  1. That inserts space between two objects.

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