interjacent

American  

[in-ter-jey-suhnt] / ˌɪn tərˈdʒeɪ sənt /

adjective

1. between or among others; intervening; intermediate.

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interjacent British  

/ ˌɪntəˈdʒeɪsənt /

adjective

1. located in between; intervening

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Other Word Forms

• interjacence noun

Etymology

Origin of interjacent

1585–95; < Latin interjacent- (stem of interjacēns ) present participle of interjacēre to lie between. See inter-, adjacent

Example Sentences

At the sight of this vision he was much assured, and with swift marches overrunning all the interjacent places, takes Beroea, and making his head-quarters there, reduced the rest of the country by his commanders.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

These are the Colours on both sides the white when the Paper is held between the Prism and the Point X where the Colours meet, and the interjacent white vanishes.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir

It was one continuous jungle, except three interjacent glades of narrow limits, which gave us three breathing pauses in the dire task of jungle travelling.

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

And to no purpose has he made the interjacent atmosphere so efficacious and elastic that the vision penetrates through the atmosphere which is in a manner moved?

From A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion by Epictetus

Its appearance was such as interjacent Air would have caused, and it exhibited the same Colours.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir