spacing

Examples

• All

• The spacing effect is increasingly being evaluated in the classroom because of its clear educational applications.

  Academic text (2014)

• The teacher explained that the optimal spacing of the presentation slides can enhance audience engagement.

• When this occurs, any adjacent wire must be kept some distance greater than the minimum spacing away.

  Academic text (1999)

• Multiple tests over the same material should make use of the test-spacing effect.

  Academic text (1993)

• The spacing effect is the finding that spaced practice generally results in greater learning than massed practice.

  Academic text (2014)

• Many African mothers recognize the importance of child-spacing for their own and their children's health.

  Academic text (1993)

• Cognitive psychologists have proposed several theoretical explanations for the spacing effect and thus for the superiority of IR.

  Academic text (2014)

• In order to improve memory retention, researchers suggest increasing the spacing between study sessions.

• They decided to change the spacing of the meetings to allow more time between each one.

Synonyms

S

space

vsspacing

381 3.1

A period of time between two events

is the gap between repeated occurrences rather than any single period

S

span

vsspacing

89 3.1

The distance or time between two points

is the gap between repeated occurrences rather than a whole period

I

interval

vsspacing

83 3.5

A period of time between two events

is the gap measured between repeated occurrences

T

time interval

vsspacing

4 3.3

A period between two events that you can measure

is the gap specifically between repeated occurrences

E

elapsed time

vsspacing

1 3.4

Time that passes between two events

is the gap specifically between repeated occurrences, not time already passed

T

timespan

vsspacing

1 3.4

A period of time between a start and an end

is the gap between repeated occurrences, not the whole duration

Compounds

D

double-spacing

1 3.3

Text typed with a blank line between each line

E

even spacing

1 3.0

An arrangement where the spaces between things are equal, like letters or plants

T

triple-spacing

5.3

Leaving two blank lines between each line of text

S

single-spacing

3.3

Typing text so each line has only a small space and no blank lines

How Long

hiatus

34 6.3

gap

87 2.3

spacing

1 3.2

pause

192 1.0

moment

∞ 1.0

instant

232 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology