spacer
Britishnoun
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a piece of material used to create or maintain a space between two things
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computing a keyed space in text or data; space character
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a person who travels in outer space
Example Sentences
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The emitter is composed of a tungsten metal sheet, a thin layer of a spacer material and a network of silicon nanocylinders.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
He showed ability as a floor spacer in his lone college season at Alabama.
From Washington Times • Jun. 23, 2023
That GPS collar has a cotton spacer that should have made the collar fall off, but it hasn’t and for unknown reasons the GPS stopped working, Gunnell said.
From Seattle Times • May 6, 2022
Investigators found no functioning spacer device at the flat and only two disassembled inhaler components.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2022
Pointed like the bow of a spacer, each one swept smoothly back for its two meters of length, to a sharply chopped off end.
From Sense of Obligation by Henry Maxwell Dempsey (AKA Harry Harrison)
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