spacing

noun

spac·​ing ˈspā-siŋ 

1

a

: the act of providing with spaces or placing at intervals

b

: an arrangement in space

2

a

: a limited extent : space

b

: the distance between any two objects in a usually regularly arranged series

Synonyms

• distance
• lead
• length
• remove
• spread
• stretch
• way

Examples of spacing in a Sentence

The spacing between characters should be even.

the spacing of the houses was a little tight

Recent Examples on the Web

In Cleveland, Bickerstaff was forced to learn a thing or two about suboptimal spacing, as the team regularly deployed two bigs at the same time in Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen. —Mat Issa, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

The spacing wasn’t great, and the lack of Brandin Podziemski’s playmaking was felt, but the starters generally held their own. —Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024

There’s a choice of eye-catching templates and text that can be styled to match a story using controls for alignment, size, direction, color and spacing. —Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024

Brush strokes at the microscale Enlarge / Relative scale and spacing of the whirling brush strokes in van Gogh’s The Starry Night, along with variances in luminance of the paint. —Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1711, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Phrases Containing spacing

• letter spacing

Kids Definition

spacing

noun

spac·​ing

ˈspā-siŋ

1

: an arrangement in space

2

: the distance between any two objects in an arranged series