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interstice|ɪnˈtɜːstɪs, ˈɪntəstɪs|
Also 7 pl. intersticies.
[ad. L. interstiti-um space between, f. *interstit-, ppl. stem of intersistĕre, f. inter between + sistĕre to stand; cf. F. interstice (14th c.).]
1. a. An intervening space (usually, empty); esp. a relatively small or narrow space, between things or the parts of a body (freq. in pl., the minute spaces between the ultimate parts of matter); a narrow opening, chink, or crevice.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 848 When it is carried to the interstice or place between the browes, the very seat of reason. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 87 When the ayery intersticies are filled, and as much of the salt of the ashes as the water will imbibe is dissolved. a1697Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) I. 45 The great wooden Bridge (over the Thames) hath twenty Interstices. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 56 The interstices of water are always found full of air. 1833H. Martineau Three Ages iii. 89 He found an interstice, through which he could slip half-a-dozen burnt almonds. 1839Stephens Man. Brit. Coleoptera 47 Elytra striated, interstices finely punctulated.
fig.1653J. Hall Paradoxes 16 Democracie..is..indeed an interstice of government, rather than government. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. vi. 132 Side currents are perpetually..slipping into the empty interstices of his thoughts.
b. Physics. The space between adjacent atoms or ions in a crystal lattice. Cf. interstitial a. 2 e.
1933[see interstitial a. 5]. 1940F. Seitz Mod. Theory Solids xiv. 496 The interstices of metals forming substitutional alloys usually are much smaller than the atomic size. 1942Sneed & Maynard Gen. Inorg. Chem. xlvii. 1108 The interstices in a metal lattice are small, hence only the smallest metalloid atoms, C, N, B and H, can form such compounds and solid solutions. 1972Gross & Wiseall Princ. Phys. Chem. xix. 39 The holes or interstices formed between the layers of spheres in close-packed structures are of two different types, (a) tetrahedral interstices and (b) octahedral interstices.
2. a. An intervening space of time; an interval between actions. Now rare.
1639J. Saltmarsh Policy lxxxi. 69 Long inter-regnums or interstices in government is the Winter and ill Season of a State. 1688Sedley Proc. in Eng. Wks. 1722 I. 184 There must be some Interstice, some space of time, before they who deposed a King can set up another. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 179, I will endeavour to point out the Interstices of Time, which ought to be between one Citation and another. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. iii. x. (1873) 239 Who look to the little intervals and interstices of work as so much time which may be freely wasted.
b. spec. in Canon Law (pl.) The intervals required between the reception of the various degrees of holy orders.
1745A. Butler Lives Saints, Norbert (1847) VI. 119 The irregularity committed in his receiving the holy orders of deacon and priest at the same time, without observing the interstices prescribed by the canons. 1885Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 454/2 A bishop cannot dispense with the interstices in ordaining candidates coming to him from another diocese.
Hence intersticed a., having interstices; also, fitted at intervals with something. rare.
1848Lytton Harold v. vii, Through the intersticed columns of the fane Edith saw the large shadow of a man. 1888Voice (N.Y.) 6 Sept., His bare back was inflamed with scourges intersticed with pieces of lead and bone. |