Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make or occupy a space between.
  • noun A space between two things; an interval.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make or fill the space between; occupy the interval between.
  • noun In osteol, one of the interstices of bone between the Haversian systems.
  • noun A space between objects; an intervening space; an interval.
  • noun Specifically In entomology, the space between two longitudinal veins or veinlets of the wings: used especially in describing the Lepidoptera.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Intervening space.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A space or interval between two things; an interstice
  • verb To make, or to occupy such a space

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

inter- +‎ space

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Examples

  • Everyone's already blogging, your words will just get lost in interspace.

    Randy Susan Meyers: To Blog or Not to Blog? Randy Susan Meyers 2010

  • Says the notion of interspace-time transference is mathematically absurd.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • It is precisely this "interspace" to which Jelinek gives a voice in her texts when she, from her outsider position in Austrian culture, writes about those things which are suppressed in her native land.

    Elfriede Jelinek: Provocation as the Breath of Life 2005

  • She was Karving her initials on the møøse 
 with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given 
 her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and 
 star of many Norwegian møvies: The Høt Hands of an Oslo 


    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • She was Karving her initials on the møøse 
 with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given 
 her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and 
 star of many Norwegian møvies: The Høt Hands of an Oslo 


    Swedish Police Finger Moose As Murder Suspect 2009

  • With every echo the interspace closes in a little more.

    The Voyeur Nicolette Wong 2010

  • She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law -an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...

    Troopergate... Ann Althouse 2008

  • She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an

    Ma baloney haz a furst name… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...

    Where am I? Ann Althouse 2008

  • Dionysus, not only is a thing of beauty in itself, but the whole interspace swept clean of dancers owns a separate charm. 192

    Oeconomicus 2007

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