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spacing

[spay-sing] / ˈspeɪ sɪŋ /


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Government officials said Smart’s debut was always planned to be limited before validating the software and expanding its capabilities, such as spacing out arrival times and planning routes days in advance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

They are common in Congolese cities, which largely lack firefighting equipment, and are often caused by a lack of spacing between buildings and illegal connections to the power grid, specialists say.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Both Heathrow and Gatwick, for example, have moved away from mandating minimum distances between incoming aircraft in favour of a system which continually calculates spacing times based on wind speeds and aircraft types.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

This spacing helps ensure that chemical signals reach only the next colony in the sequence, allowing information to move through the circuit in a single direction.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

I mean, Slide did call me out today because I kept spacing out in calculus and we have our final on Wednesday.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

If such arrays can be produced on-demand with any desired spacings, it could greatly improve phonon-polaritons' imaging ability and would be a huge achievement, said Moore.

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024

“Undisguised, our individual traits are laid bare,” he wrote in “Private Domain,” “and our shapes, spacings, and timings are established.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

For outdoor use, we recommend the 5mm Wide Angle Conical LED Lights from Christmas Designers, available in warm white, multicolor, or single color in a variety of lengths and bulb spacings.

From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2018

Force-induced destabilization of focal adhesions at defined integrin spacings on nanostructured surfaces.

From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017

Like raised-bed gardeners, vegetable farmers have discovered that they can make a bigger profit by growing smaller, quick-maturing plants in high-density spacings.

From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Steve Solomon


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