interjacent
Americanadjective
adjective
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
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Highlands of Scotland, and the interjacent Isle of Man.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
In the end of June, he issued from Stettin; took the interjacent outpost places; and then opened ground before Stralsund, where, in a few days more, the Danes joined him.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Carlyle, Thomas
In the Itinerary of Antoninus, the places, and their interjacent distances are stated as follows, Gaza, 22 M.P.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
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 is ground separated from home by an interjacent state, whose territory we have had to cross in order to reach it.
From The Art of War by Sunzi (6th cent. BC)
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