interstition

English

Etymology

From Latin interstitiō, or by confusion with interstitium.

Noun

interstition (plural interstitions)

1. An interstice or interstitium; an interstitial space.

Middle English

Noun

interstition

1. an intervening period of time; interval
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     The dewes and the frostes hore
     After thilke interstition,
     In which they take impression

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Further reading

• “interstition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.