verb
noun
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
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My path lies on the interspace between religion and philosophy, that connects them both.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
In desperation she leapt across the widening interspace, and fell headlong and bruised beside him.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
Smith half led, half carried his charge up to the road and then left him to go and back the car over the three hundred-odd yards of the interspace.
From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis
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 apex beat will therefore be found in the fifth or sixth interspace, and definitely at an increased distance from the midsternal line.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall
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