interspace

American  

[in-ter-speys, in-ter-speys] / ˈɪn tərˌspeɪs, ˌɪn tərˈspeɪs /

noun

1. a space between things.

2. an intervening period of time; interval.

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verb (used with object)

interspaced, interspacing

1. to put a space between.

2. to occupy or fill the space between.

interspace British  

/ ˌɪntəˈspeɪʃəl /

verb

1. (tr) to make or occupy a space between

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noun

1. space between or among things

Other Word Forms

• interspatial adjective
• interspatially adverb

Etymology

Origin of interspace

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at inter-, space

Example Sentences

I have collected a handful of feeble relics—but I fear the small desert will too cruelly interspace them.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

The Wanderer is double-walled, being built of well-seasoned beautiful mahogany, and lined with maple, having an interspace of about one inch and a half.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon

In such a Dinosaur as the American carnivorous Ceratosaurus the two bars of the pubis and ischium remain separate and diverging, and there is no film of bone extending over the interspace between them.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

These scales are generally small, and placed symmetrically in close whorls, in an imbricated order, with each scale corresponding to the interspace between two scales in the whorls above and below.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

The independent patterns that appear in this interspace upon the bulbs of the fingers, are those with which this book is chiefly concerned.

From Finger Prints by Galton, Francis, Sir