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Spacing vs Pacing - What's the difference?

spacing | pacing |

As verbs the difference between spacing and pacing

is that spacing is present participle of lang=en while pacing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between spacing and pacing

is that spacing is the action of the verb {{term|space|lang=en}} while pacing is the act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.

As an adjective spacing

is that inserts space between two objects.

spacing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb space.
  • A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces.
    • The spacing of the desks in the exam hall was intended to prevent candidates from copying each other's work.
  • The space between two objects or people.
    • Put some more spacing between those two words to make them more readable.

    Derived terms

    * automatic spacing * channel spacing * double-spacing * echo spacing * French spacing * interframe spacing * letter-spacing, letterspacing * level spacing distribution * line-spacing * measured spacing * optical spacing * segment long spacing * self-spacing tile * single-spacing * spacing effect * spacing mark * spacing mix * third-spacing * triple-spacing * word spacing * zero spacing flux

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That inserts space between two objects.

    • Derived terms

    * long-spacing sonic log * non-spacing, nonspacing

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    pacing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings , etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.

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