Spacer

Quick meaning: Spacer is a noun meaning An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.

Meaning

An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.

More Meanings

1. (science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.
2. A bushing.
3. (medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
4. (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
5. (historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.

Example Sentences

"How do I know I can trust you?" asked BKR. Grakker hesitated. "Spacer's oath," he said at last.

He was thankful that he still had his suit on when the ship had a catastrophic decompression, a spacer's worst nightmare.

The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.

It was the futile throwing back in the face of the Spacers their most keenly felt insult: their insistence on considering the natives of Earth as disgustingly diseased.

Word Forms

• spacers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include standoff, distance, gif, divider, separator, delimiter.

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