as in distances
the space or amount of space between two points, lines, surfaces, or objects
the spacing of the houses was a little tight
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Recent Examples of spacings
Several spacings and gaps were potential vermin entrances including spacing and gaps between floor boards, a vertical air gap along double front doors and on the ceiling above the ice cream chest freezer in the retail aisle.
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Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
updated January 23, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
More distant spacings will leave gaps in the bed.
—Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025
The Columbia researchers fabricated metasurface structures consisting of arrays of nanoantennas with subwavelength spacings.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2017
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
updated January 23, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
More distant spacings will leave gaps in the bed.
—Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2025
The Columbia researchers fabricated metasurface structures consisting of arrays of nanoantennas with subwavelength spacings.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spacings
Noun
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Instead of dotting the same black scrim, like pinholes in a two-dimensional theater backdrop, the stars were scattered through space at dramatically varying distances, a vast swarm of them filling every last corner of an even vaster, more numinous, and emphatically three-dimensional darkness.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Next the team wants to infer the various distances of the structures that the researchers have glimpsed and to use them to make the map more dynamic and three-dimensional.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
25 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The loafer comes in extended sizes and widths, too.—
Sian Babish,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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The design featured an almond toe and two clear straps of differing widths that stretched across the foot, both adorned with pastel jewels.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Spacings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spacings. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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