Spacing may refer to: * ''Spacing'' (magazine), a Canadian magazine *

Spacing effect The spacing effect demonstrates that learning is more effective when study sessions are spaced out. This effect shows that more information is encoded into long-term memory by spaced study sessions, also known as '' spaced repetition'' or ''sp ...

in psychology; the opposite of cramming * The usage of spaces in typography **

Letter spacing Examples of headline letter spacing Letter spacing, character spacing or tracking is an optically consistent typographical adjustment to the space between letters to change the visual density of a line or block of text. Letter spacing is disti ...

, the amount of space between a group of letters ** Line spacing, interline spacing, or

leading In typography, leading ( ) is the space between adjacent lines of type; the exact definition varies. In hand typesetting, leading is the thin strips of lead (or aluminium) that were inserted between lines of type in the composing stick to incre ...

, the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type **

Sentence spacing Sentence spacing concerns how Space (punctuation), spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset Written language, text and is a matter of typographical convention (norm), convention. Since the introduction of movable type, movable-type printin ...

, the horizontal space between sentences in typeset text **

French spacing The history of sentence spacing is the evolution of sentence spacing conventions from the introduction of movable type in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg to the present day. Typesetting in all European languages enjoys a long tradition of using spac ...

, one convention for the use of spaces in printed text around punctuation, words, and sentences **

Word spacing Word spacing in typography is space between words, as contrasted with letter-spacing (space between letters of words) and sentence spacing (space between sentences). Typographers may modify the spacing of letters or words in a body of type to aid ...

, the amount of space between words * Spacing, a science fiction term for a theoretical method of execution by

space exposure The effects of spaceflight on the human body are complex and largely harmful over both short and long term. Significant adverse effects of long-term weightlessness include muscle atrophy and osteoporosis, deterioration of the Human skeleton, ske ...

* Spacing, the distance between microphones in an AB microphone system (see time-of-arrival stereophony)

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