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IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈspeɪsə(ɹ)/

Noun

sometimes slang historical

(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.

Japanese Meaning

（SF用語）宇宙空間で働いたり、住んだりする人 / 列中のアイテム（例：ビーズ、印刷用タイプ）の間に挿入され、空間を保持するための物体 / ブッシング（機械部品としての部品）

What is this buttons?

The spacer inspected the hull repair before the station docked at the colony.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その宇宙居住者は、ステーションが植民地にドッキングする前に船体の修理を点検した。

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Sense（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.

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Sense（2）

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

Sense（3）

A bushing.

Sense（4）

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

Sense（5）

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

Sense（6）

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

spacers

（ plural ）

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