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 In typography, letter spacing, character spacing or tracking is an optically consistent adjustment to the space between letters to change the visual density of a line or block of text. Letter spacing is distin ...

, 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 inc ...

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

Sentence spacing Sentence spacing concerns how spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset text and is a matter of typographical convention. Since the introduction of movable-type printing in Europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in ...

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

space exposure Venturing into the environment of space can have negative effects on the human body. Significant adverse effects of long-term weightlessness include muscle atrophy and deterioration of the skeleton ( spaceflight osteopenia). Other significant e ...

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

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