Respacing

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    spacing again, or by a different amount

    "No major platform improvements have been possible in the past because the piers of an overbridge at the north end of the station prevented respacing of the tracks."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of respace form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"No major platform improvements have been possible in the past because the piers of an overbridge at the north end of the station prevented respacing of the tracks."

Etymology

From re- + spacing.

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