spacer
/ˈspeɪsɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bushing.
noun
A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
noun
An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.
Example Sentences
- "The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers."
- "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."
- ""How do I know I can trust you?" asked BKR. Grakker hesitated. "Spacer's oath," he said at last."
- "Shepard: What are you running for? Charles Saracino: I'm seeking one of the five spacer seats in Parliament. They have certain baroque conditions for a citizen to be able to vote for them. Charles Saracino: You have to spend more than six months a year in space. But you can't have stayed in any one settled system for more than a month."
- "He was thankful that he still had his suit on when the ship had a catastrophic decompression, a spacer's worst nightmare."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin spatiumbor. Old French espace Anglo-Norman spacebor. Middle English space English space English -er English spacer From space + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈspeɪsɚ/