SPACING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spacing mean? 

• SPACING (noun)
  The noun SPACING has 2 senses:

1. the time between occurrences of a repeating event

2. the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them

  Familiarity information: SPACING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPACING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time between occurrences of a repeating event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

some women do not control the spacing of their children

Hypernyms ("spacing" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property possessed by an array of things that have space between them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

spacing; spatial arrangement

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)

 Context examples 

Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia characterized by the proliferation of secretory cells with irregular spacing in the ducts and acini.

(Low Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A 120 amino acid protein domain, with an alpha-helical structure, containing 10 cysteines, which have conserved spacing throughout the sequence.

(Frizzled Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Acf1 contains a PHD-finger and is able to modulate the internucleosomal spacing of chromatin by an ATP-dependent mechanism.

(ACF complex, NCI Thesaurus)

They concluded that the penitentes could potentially grow to around 15 metres tall with a spacing of around 7.5 metres between each one.

(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But if you have problems with your bite or the spacing of your teeth, you may need orthodontic care.

(Orthodontia, NIH)

The team determined that lithium insertion caused an asymmetry in the spacing between vanadium atoms, known as Peierls distortion, which was responsible for the breakup of the VS2 flakes.

(Creating Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Made Possible with New Discovery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

By variations in the composition of the sequences in the fingertip and the number and spacing of tandem repeats of the motif, zinc fingers can form a large number of different sequence specific binding sites.

(C2H2 Zinc Finger, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)