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SPACING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property possessed by an array of things that have space between them
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("spacing" is a kind of...):
arrangement; placement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spacing"):
openness (without obstructions to passage or view)
distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)
dispersion; distribution (the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume)
compactness; concentration; denseness; density; tightness (the spatial property of being crowded together)
Derivation:
space (place at intervals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The time between occurrences of a repeating event
Example:
some women do not control the spacing of their children
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("spacing" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb space
