Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of arranging with intervening spaces.
- noun The result of so arranging.
- noun A system of or allowance for intervals.
- noun Spaces or a space, as in printed matter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The making of spaces.
- noun In art, mach., etc., the division of any surface into special parts.
- noun A space thus made.
- noun Spaces collectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
space . - noun The action of the verb
space . - noun A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces.
- noun The space between two objects or people.
- adjective That inserts space between two objects.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them
- noun the time between occurrences of a repeating event
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Examples
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And i notice the spacing is it reality like that or it became narrow if taken shot by a camera.
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There's an obvious tradeoff involved in spacing the stops closer together or further apart: if you have to walk a little further to your stop, you will then have a quicker ride with less frequent stops; if the walk to your stop is shorter, you will then have a slower ride with more frequent stops.
One thumb down on the new transit mall (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Some independent experts, while critical overall, praise the administration for its role in spacing out the negative shocks from the record home repossessions taking place, lessening the chances of the economy suffering a fatal blow.
Bailout Oversight Panel Slams Obama Administration Over Foreclosure Crisis The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The spacing is weird, which makes the page hard to read; just search for my name.
Odin's Day shiftercat 2009
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Some independent experts, while critical overall, praise the administration for its role in spacing out the negative shocks from the record home repossessions taking place, lessening the chances of the economy suffering a fatal blow.
Bailout Oversight Panel Slams Obama Administration Over Foreclosure Crisis Shahien Nasiripour 2010
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"What is the harm in spacing out vaccines that contain aluminum?"
Education Materials on Vaccines for Healthcare Professionals 2008
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"What is the harm in spacing out vaccines that contain aluminum?"
Educational Materials About Vaccines for Parents and Others 2008
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I adjusted the word spacing so it is more legible now.
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I adjusted the word spacing so it is more legible now.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Whoever this person is, they should immediately cease their study of Ma's thesis, which they are clearly not competent to do note that in the word spacing in the second pic they missed a minor obvious English error and Michael Richardson should immediately cease reporting on this.
What 1000s of Errors? "Please Stop" v2.0 Michael Turton 2009
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