spaceband

[ speys-band ]

Printing.
  1. a wedge-shaped piece of metal used in typecasting machines to adjust the space between words and to justify lines of type.

Origin of spaceband

1
First recorded in 1900–05; space + band2

Words Nearby spaceband

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British Dictionary definitions for spaceband

spaceband

/ (ˈspeɪsˌbænd) /


noun
  1. printing a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words

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