English Dictionary

spacer

/ˈspeɪsə(ɹ)/

noun

(sometimes science fiction) A person who works or lives in space. / An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type. / A bushing.

The astronaut used a spacer to adjust the size of the helmet.

意味（1）

(sometimes science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.

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.

意味（2）

An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.

意味（3）

A bushing.

意味（4）

(slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.

意味（5）

(medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.

意味（6）

(historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.