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spacing

[spay-sing] / ˈspeɪ sɪŋ /


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Back in Brooklyn, Bernard spent eight years in meetings and negotiations, adjusting building heights and spacing as officials raised concerns about density, and gaining trust with local political leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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

People tell me I look like I’m spacing out.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

Inset, distribution of grid spacings across cells and a mixture of three Gaussians fit to the distribution.

From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017

Sometimes at vertical intervals of not more than one or two inches, again with spacings of a score of feet, we find divisional planes, which indicate a sudden change in the process of rock formation.

From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler


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