Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device used in cable telegraphy for reversing the current at proper intervals, thus increasing the speed of transmission: also used for a somewhat similar purpose on land-lines.
- noun In a typewriter, a key, and the mechanism connected with it, by which spaces are made between words.
- noun In a type-setting machine, a device for spacing words.
- noun Anything by which a space or interval is made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who works in space.
- noun An object inserted to hold a
space open in a row of items, e.g.beads or printed type. - noun A
bushing . - noun slang A forgetful person.
- noun medicine A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a
metered-dose inhaler .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The first twenty-one pills have a combination of synthetic estrogen and progestin hormones; the last seven pills have no hormones and are called spacer pills, sugar pills, or inactive pills.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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-- The use of a double-dose of fluid called spacer in the well.
Hearings focus on possible human factors in BP oil spill 2010
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-- The use of a double-dose of fluid called spacer in the well.
Hearings focus on possible human factors in BP oil spill 2010
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I invented an extremely low-cost version of a device, known as a spacer, that dramatically increases the amount of medication that can reach the lungs of a child to relieve the symptoms of an asthma attack.
A Good and Cheap Asthma Solution - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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A spacer is a chamber that attaches to an inhaler, captures the discharged medication and holds it until the patient inhales it.
A Good and Cheap Asthma Solution - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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I invented an extremely low-cost version of a device, known as a spacer, that dramatically increases the amount of medication that can reach the lungs of a child to relieve the symptoms of an asthma attack.
A Good and Cheap Asthma Solution - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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A spacer is a chamber that attaches to an inhaler, captures the discharged medication and holds it until the patient inhales it.
A Good and Cheap Asthma Solution - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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It is common knowledge that when a warp thread drops out, its place is indicated by a thinness or fine opening for the whole length of the missing warp, and this is so because the reed, besides pushing the weft into position, also acts as a warp spacer, that is to say it keeps the warp threads properly apart, every one being properly aligned.
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The sequence located between the ribozyme and the biosensor binding domains on the HCV target, the so-called spacer domain, was always kept between 4 and 7 nt in length as this length has been shown to be optimal
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michel V. L�vesque et al. 2010
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The remedy being readied by Toyota and its supplier CTS Corp involves a shim, also called a spacer, that will be placed in the accelerator to keep it from sticking, sources said.
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