Crossword clues for spacing
spacing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"allowing and gauging of intervals between words in setting type," 1680s, verbal noun from space (v.).
Wiktionary
That inserts space between two objects. n. 1 The action of the verb (term space English). 2 A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces. 3 The space between two objects or people. v
(present participle of space English)
WordNet
n. the time between occurrences of a repeating event; "some women do not control the spacing of their children"
the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them [syn: spatial arrangement]
Wikipedia
Spacing may refer to:
- Spacing (magazine), a Canadian magazine.
- Spacing effect in psychology; the opposite of cramming (education).
- The usage of spaces in typography.
- Letter-spacing, the amount of space between a group of letters.
- Line spacing or leading, the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type.
- Sentence spacing, the horizontal space between sentences in typeset text.
- French spacing, one convention for the use of spaces in printed text around punctuation, words, and sentences.
- Spacing, a science fiction term for a theoretical method of execution by space exposure.
- Spacing, the distance between microphones in an AB microphone system (time-of-arrival stereophony).
- Spacing (tetris), a method used in the game tetris.
Spacing is a magazine published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Focusing on issues affecting the public realm in Toronto and nationally (two issues each per year), Spacing was originally published by the Toronto Public Space Committee in house until it was spun off as a wholly independent magazine after the first issue.
Usage examples of "spacing".
The Spacing Guild, which established its monopoly on interstellar transport soon after the Butlerian Jihad, likewise uses mind expansion techniques.
There they emerged into a circular vestibule with molded pastel walls interspaced with glass panels, and began walking along one of several corridors extending away radially at forty-five-degree spacings.
Chaldean architects knew the effect to be gained by spacing the Holy of Holies at a distance from the temple pylae, and the Cro-Magnard magicians with malice aforethought painted their marvelous animal scenes only in the most inaccessible crannies of their limestone caves.
She had a bit of trouble getting her oddly shaped fingers to hit just the keys she wanted until Rafik made up a keyboard with spacings appropriate to her manual dexterity.
Andreas was insisting, spacing each word between kisses so rav ishingly tender that Saskia felt as though she was melting.
Above all, though, a revolution in typographical spacing occurred so quietly that very few people noticed.
The separation between the blips closed to a few millimetres, then to a hairsbreadth spacing which seemed to endure for an eternity.
There they emerged into a circular vestibule with molded pastel walls interspaced with glass panels, and began walking along one of several corridors extending away radially at forty-five-degree spacings.
Just as Nanoannie was closing her eyes and spacing out, the insinuating Thujone fragrance was overpowered by the salt-piss smell of cheap ramen.
She dumped its contents on the bed and searched through the pile of packets and small pouches it had contained, looking at the shape of the container, the color and type of cord that held it closed, and the number and spacing of knots in it.
The men with the scythes formed two lines, the spacing of the workers staggered.
Terran ballads mixed with Liaden chorales mixed with bawdy spacing songs mixed with other things the like of which she'd never heard mixed with scraps of see-sawing notes that sounded like the melodies of children's rhyming games.
The smooth walls here in the compactor offered less traction than stone would have, but the evenness of the spacing and the absence of sharp rocks to dig into his back more than made up for it.
The Emperor would deliver the confiscated melange as a reward to CHOAM and the Spacing Guild.
At one time he thought that he could give up the starfish altogether by spacing out his eatings and making the spaces longer and longer until they were forever.