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spacely

spacely adjective: of, relating to or pertaining to space, especially outer space; space-like.

Adjective

spacely (comparative more spacely, superlative most spacely)

  1. Of, relating to or pertaining to space, especially outer space; space-like.
    • This show wants to offend no one, and suffers great pains to avoid doing so, right down to the sexless leotards it crams everyone into, a spacely effort to promote a new brand of spacely political correctness.1994 Mar, SPIN, page 28
    • While zooming from Los Angeles to London, this commercial orange rocket ship with three crew members and four passengers is drawn into a spacely time warp and crash-lands on a strange planet occupied by giant-sized people on the sci-fi TV series Land of the Giants.2005, David Mansour, From Abba to Zoom

Adverb

spacely (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard) spatially
    • To realize a NTS one must have a spacely extended clock.1982, Stefan Marinov, Classical Physics: Mathematical apparatus - Page ix
    • For the elucidation of steric relations of the GABA interaction with receptors and with metabolical enzymes 3-aminocyclobutane carboxylic acid was synthetized, which is a spacely restricted GABA analog (Safanda and Sobotka, 1982).1985, Univerzita J.E. Purkyně v Brně. Lékařská fakulta, Sborník prací Lékařské fakulty v Brně - Volume 92 - Page 91

Examples of spacely in a sentence

  • The Earthly chronometer will indeed indicate that several decades have passed; whereas the spacely chronometer will indicate instead that several years have passed.2008, Michael F. Wagner, The Enigmatic Reality of Time:
  • Geological surveys, (FlC, 2000) support the idea of a spacely restricted leakage from an underlying aquifer system being the reason for this.2002, Water and Land Development - 2002 - Page 21
  • It is assumed that a general mixed state ρ is given in the sector A and the problem is to “send it” to the spacely separated sector C.2010, Andrzej Kwiecien, Piotr Gaj, Piotr Stera, Computer Networks:

Forms of spacely

comparativemore spacely
superlativemost spacely

Origin of spacely

From space + -ly.

Questions about spacely

What does spacely mean?
Spacely means of, relating to or pertaining to space, especially outer space; space-like.
How do you use spacely in a sentence?
The Earthly chronometer will indeed indicate that several decades have passed; whereas the spacely chronometer will indicate instead that several years have passed.
What part of speech is spacely?
Spacely can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near spacely in the dictionary

  1. spaceliners
  2. spacelines
  3. spaceling
  4. spacelings
  5. spacelore
  6. spacely
  7. spaceman
  8. spacemanship
  9. spacemen
  10. spacenik
  11. spaceniks

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