interstition

English

Etymology

From Latin interstitiō, or by confusion with interstitium.

Noun

interstition (plural interstitions)

An interstice or interstitium; an interstitial space.

Middle English

Noun

interstition

an intervening period of time; interval
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, OCLC 827099568:
  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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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