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spacers

spacers is the plural of spacer.

Meaning of spacer

Noun

spacer (plural spacers)

  1. An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
    • The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.1959 December, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866
  2. A person who works or lives in space.
    • It was the futile throwing back in the face of the Spacers their most keenly felt insult: their insistence on considering the natives of Earth as disgustingly diseased.1954, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
  3. A bushing.
  4. (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
  5. A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
  6. (historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.

Phrases with spacers

Questions about spacers

What is spacers the plural of?
Spacers is the plural of spacer.

Words near spacers in the dictionary

  1. spacequake
  2. spacequakes
  3. spacer
  4. spacer DNA
  5. spacer oligonucleotide typing
  6. spacers
  7. spaces
  8. spaces of Destot
  9. spaces of Disse
  10. spaces out
  11. spacescape

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