Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Spaced-out.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of space.

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  • adjective spaced apart
  • adjective arranged with spaces between; often used as a combining form

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Examples

  • So if you're among the publishing folk it wouldn't hurt to put it out there that TNR double-spaced is super duper.

    Mystery of the Day 2009

  • This is known as spaced repetition, and is a very effective way of learning.

    How to improve long-term memory 2012

  • This is called "spaced conditioning," and it is found across all species.

    Boomers, don't let your memory be the first thing to go 2011

  • I was too spaced from the flight to be very good company, and I still had too much blood in my nicotine system to be comfortable, as we were, of course, in the non-smoking section.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2006

  • When well loosened, the squash slices were again spaced apart as before, and the spit was replaced on the rods, to be left for another day.

    Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden 1917

  • Improved error messages when defining properties of classes, etc. but passing null to the property (happens easily when you have a typo in the last part of a name spaced identifier).

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend 2009

  • He opened his notebook and wrote the quotation down at the top of the page in his small, precise printing, all the lowercase letters just the same size, each word spaced the same as the others.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • He opened his notebook and wrote the quotation down at the top of the page in his small, precise printing, all the lowercase letters just the same size, each word spaced the same as the others.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • Ensuring all lessons have appropriate gaps within them for brains to assimilate knowledge - the so called spaced learning experiments - is another.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • "The. com domain name spaced reach saturation point a few years back," says Adrian Kinderis, chief executive of AusRegistry International, which sells the. au country code domain.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2009

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