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; inter-, space

Example Sentences

Ah! the flowers cleave apart And their sweet fills the tender interspace; Ah! the leaves grown thereof were things to kiss Ere their fine gold was tarnished at the heart.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

In fresh specimens, the orange ring at the top of the peduncle, and the broad purplish interspace between the carina and other valves, are characteristic.

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

For indeed that short interspace of time shines out in my remembrance like a thick thread of gold in a woof of homespun.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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

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