SPACING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

spacing; spatial arrangement

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)

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)

-ing form of the verb space