spacing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of space

plural spacings

1. countableuncountableThe action of the verb space.
2. countableuncountableA 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. countableuncountableThe space between two objects or people.

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

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   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.

   2011 August 2, Keith Brindley, Starting Electronics, page 18

4. countableuncountableliteratureThe activity of working or living in outer space; the occupation of a spacer.

   He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky.

   1949 February 28, Alfred Coppel, “Runaway”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 2 (Spring)

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   Shepard: You don't seem too broken up about your partner's death. Pitne For: Dakni Kur knew the risks when he took to spacing. Right now, my worry is me. Pitne For: It's unhealthy to be a volus in the Nos Astra spaceport right now. Especially a volus named Pitne For!

   2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2: Normandy Crash Site (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Nos Astra spaceport, Illium

1. not comparableThat inserts space between two objects.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of SPAC