In a spasmodic manner; intermittently.

present participle of space

The action of the verb space. / A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces. / The space between two objects or people.

That inserts space between two objects.

The period from the about the time of the launch of Sputnik in 1957 to the present day, during which people ventured into space. / (attributive) Redolent of the space age; appearing futuristic or modern.

The space in an electron tube in which there is no modulated field

(construction) A sealed airspace in a cavity wall.

Alternative spelling of airspace

(military) The areas between a weapon and its target in which the trajectory is not greater than the typical height of a human (about 1.8 meters)

(mathematics) The vector space generated by all the column vectors of a matrix