0 past simple and past participle of space
1 to arrange things or people so that there is some distance or time between them:
That page looks badly spaced (= there is too much/too little distance between the lines or words).
The flowers were spaced (out) evenly (= planted at equal distances) beside the path.
If you're in financial difficulty, we're happy to let you space (out) your payments (= pay in smaller amounts over a longer period of time) over two years.
At each site and date, 25 feeding stations were arranged in a 5x5 grid spaced at 10-m intervals.
The figure-eight orbit consists of three equal mass particles traveling around a fixed figure-eight curve in the plane, spaced apart by equal time intervals.
It would not be surprising if points along the continuum were spaced differently in different speech communities.
In 2003, plot dimensions were 4.5r0.9 m consisting of four rows spaced approximately 230 mm apart.
Slides were hung horizontally along each frame and spaced approximately 10 cm apart.
The measuring points were approximately uniformly spaced with the top point being as close as possible to the wave trough.
Bands are so closely spaced that they have effectively amalgamated together.
These loci were equally spaced along the chromosomes, with 29 selected loci between every two adjacent neutral loci.
