spacing

• IPA^(key): /ˈspeɪsɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ

spacing

1. present participle and gerund of space

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.

   • 2011 August 2, Keith Brindley, Starting Electronics‎, 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.

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.

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

     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!

• bed spacing
• letterspacing
• third spacing

spacing (not comparable)

1. That inserts space between two objects.

• long-spacing sonic log

• pacings, scaping