spacer

From space +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspeɪsɚ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)

spacer (plural spacers)

1. (science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.
   • 1954, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel:

     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.

   • 2014 [1993], Bruce Coville, Aliens Ate My Homework‎, page 134:

     "How do I know I can trust you?" asked BKR.
     Grakker hesitated. "Spacer's oath," he said at last.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

     Shepard: What are you running for?
     Charles Saracino: I'm seeking one of the five spacer seats in Parliament. They have certain baroque conditions for a citizen to be able to vote for them.
     Charles Saracino: You have to spend more than six months a year in space. But you can't have stayed in any one settled system for more than a month.

   • 2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 20:

     He was thankful that he still had his suit on when the ship had a catastrophic decompression, a spacer's worst nightmare.

2. An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
3. A bushing.
4. (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
5. (medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
6. (historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.

• CASREP, Casper, Pacers, Scaper, capers, crapes, e-scrap, escarp, pacers, parsec, recaps, scaper, scrape, secpar

Deverbal from spacerować.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspa.t͡sɛr/

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• Rhymes: -at͡sɛr
• Syllabification: spa‧cer

spacer m inan (diminutive spacerek)

1. stroll, walk (wandering on foot; idle and leisurely walk)

   Synonym: przechadzka

• spacer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• spacer in Polish dictionaries at PWN