spacer

English

Etymology

From space +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈspeɪsə(ɹ)/
    Rhymes: -eɪsə(r)

Noun

spacer (plural spacers)

  1. (sometimes science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.
    • 1954, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel:
      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.
  2. An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
  3. A bushing.
  4. (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
  5. (medicine) 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.

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Polish

Etymology

From German spazieren, Spazier(gang).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈspa.t͡sɛr/

Noun

spacer m inan (diminutive spacerek)

  1. stroll, walk

Declension
declension of spacer
singular plural
nominative spacer spacery
genitive spaceru spacerów
dative spacerowi spacerom
accusative spacer spacery
instrumental spacerem spacerami
locative spacerze spacerach
vocative spacerze spacery

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Derived terms

Further reading
  • spacer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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