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spacing, vbl. n.|ˈspeɪsɪŋ|
[f. space v.]
1. The action of the verb, in various senses, or the result of this action. Also with out.
a. In printing, writing, or typing.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxii. ⁋8 With too great Spacing-out or too Close Setting, he..may save himself a great deal of Labour. 1771Luckombe Hist. Printing 396 Spacing consists in putting a proper distance between words. Ibid., In common Roman Matter, a moderate equal distance between word and word, is counted True Spacing. 1808C. Stower Printer's Gram. vi. 159 Close spacing is as unpleasant to the sight as wide spacing. 1862Macm. Mag. Nov. 15 Where the printer can help by means of large letters and spacing. 1871Spectator 22 Apr. 474 The difference between huddling and spacing out is one which depends partly on character.., very few men..spacing out their letters exactly alike.
b. In general use. Also attrib. as spacing collar, spacing lace, spacing machine, spacing washer.
1874Thearle Naval Archit. 129 The sizes and spacing of the rivets must be regulated accordingly. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 31/2 The spacing of the beams depends largely upon the positions of the hatchways. 1895Jrnl. R. Inst. Brit. Archit. 14 Mar. 349 There are other points of difference between the spacing out of the pictures.
attrib.1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2251 Spacing and Boring Machine, (Wood-working,) a machine for boring blind-stiles, sashes, etc., at accurately equal distances. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlew. 442/2 Spacing Lace..does not intimate a particular kind of lace, but lace used for a certain purpose. 1916Automobile Engineer VI. 92/2 (caption) Adjustable spacing collar for milling cutters. 1923Popular Wireless 27 Oct. 294/1 (Advt.), Spacing washers, large{ddd}per doz. 2½d. 1971Buck & Hickman Tool Buyer's Guide 96 Spacing Washers also supplied 1½ in. bore × 21/4 in. dia. Ibid., Spacing collars and washers for milling machine arbors.
2. Med. Period of time, esp. between the attacks of malarial fever.
1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases ii. 48 The fever.., except in the matter of the spacing, which is one of forty-eight hours, resembles that caused by the quartan parasite. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 207 The intervals between words—the spacing or order in time of utterance—may be irregular.
3. Breadth of treatment; spaciousness.
1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 257 If we are now and then conscious in the book of a certain want of spacing,..a sense of being too narrowly enclosed. |