Definition of "spacing"

spacing

verb
1. present participle and gerund of space
noun
countable and uncountable, plural spacings
1. The action of the verb space.
2. A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces.
3. The space between two objects or people.
4. (science fiction) The activity of working or living in outer space; the occupation of a spacer.
  Quotations
  He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky.
  1949 February, Alfred Coppel, “Runaway”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 2 (Spring)
adjective
not comparable
1. That inserts space between two objects.