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

  • noun The act of arranging with intervening spaces.
  • noun The result of so arranging.
  • noun A system of or allowance for intervals.
  • noun Spaces or a space, as in printed matter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The making of spaces.
  • noun In art, mach., etc., the division of any surface into special parts.
  • noun A space thus made.
  • noun Spaces collectively.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of space.
  • noun The action of the verb space.
  • noun A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces.
  • noun The space between two objects or people.
  • adjective That inserts space between two objects.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them
  • noun the time between occurrences of a repeating event

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