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

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

No; for two English line-of-battle ships, the Theseus and the Tiger, were cruising in the offing, and watching the interjacent seas of Egypt and Syria.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

Lying at a distance of six miles from Mount Tabor, it commanded the interjacent plain and the sea-coast to Acre.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas

The two men did not see each other until July, when a meeting was arranged at an interjacent village, to which Schiller rode out with the Leipzig friends.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin