Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of interspersing, scattering, or placing here and there.

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

  • noun The act of interspersing, or the state of being interspersed.

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

  • noun The state of being interspersed.
  • noun The act of interspersing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things

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Examples

  • The interspersion of alleged real videos to support some of the moments of the film tend to help set the emotion levels pretty solidly!

    THE FOURTH KIND Movie Review fr Cinema Static 2010

  • I do, however, quite like your suggestion for interspersion of "king in the north" and "the pyre" scenes, paralleled with chanting and everythnig ... looks good in my head.

    Which episode will GRRM write? 2009

  • There, the fragmentation and interspersion of wooded mountain acreage with homes to accommodate the growing numbers of commuters who work in the District of Columbia and northern Virginia is threatening the solitude and integrity of the nearby Appalachian Trail. posted by John L. Trapp at

    In Search of Tranquility John L. Trapp 2006

  • The interspersion of some discords seems to imply serious differences of opinion between the parties to the treaty.

    Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

  • Nor shall we be wanting to fill up these papers with a grateful interspersion of more serious morals, which may be drawn from the most ludicrous and odd parts of human life. '

    Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • There is effect in the manner in which the simple head-stones are planted together, with no separation of rails, no interspersion of pretending sarcophagi.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

  • Hebrew order is broken up by the interspersion of the additional literature among the other books, outside the law, thus asserting for the extra writings a substantial equality of rank and privilege.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • The interspersion of some discords seems to imply serious differences of opinion between the parties to the treaty.

    Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912

  • With the fugue, music, unaided by words, was held together by its own innate strength; it became a self-sustaining One subject was generally taken; others -- oftenest one, sometimes more -- were added; all the subjects were passed about from part to part until the end of the composition, with the interspersion of passages called "episodes" for the sake of

    Haydn John F. Runciman 1891

  • The saga prose is straightforward and business-like, the dialogue short and pithy, with considerable interspersion of proverbial phrase, but with, except in case of bad texts, very little obscurity.

    The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

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