Definitions for interstice

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interstice in·ter·stice

Spelling: [in-tur-stis]

IPA: /ɪnˈtɜr stɪs/

Interstice is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 457 anagrams from letters in interstice (ceeiinrstt).

Definitions for interstice

noun

1. an intervening space.
2. a small or narrow space or interval between things or parts, especially when one of a series of alternating uniform spaces and parts:
3. Roman Catholic Church. the interval of time that must elapse, as required by canon law, before promotion to a higher degree of orders.
4. an interval of time.

Origin of interstice

1595-1605; Latin interstitium, equivalent to interstit-, variant stem of intersistere to stand or put between + -ium -ium

Examples for interstice

There seemed to be no interstice, no crevice into which he might insert the keen probe of his marvelous deductive power.

There was only one crack, and that a very little one; nevertheless he worked his claws into the interstice and dug.

Silence broods in the arena, and in every interstice the maidenhair fern grows rife among the decaying stones.

I showed him that the sliver taken from the slipper fitted exactly the interstice I had indicated.

There was an interstice through which I got my hand, and put that figure-peg in place again.

He had noticed that the door was not quite closed, and the interstice irresistibly fascinated him.

He made a movement to close the door, but Marcos put his thickly booted foot in the interstice.

Krupp bent down and glanced through an interstice of a partition at a clock in the corridor.

Through an interstice she was able to see all the persons seated at the other table.

An interstice left open between the two flaps permitted a fall view of the interior.