spacing
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English[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.
- (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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Translations[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.