interstition
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin interstitiō, or by confusion with interstitium.
Noun[edit]
interstition (plural interstitions)
- An interstice or interstitium; an interstitial space.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
interstition
- 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- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading[edit]
- “interstition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.