interstitial

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  1. adjective Relating to, occurring in, or affecting interstices.
  2. adjective Anatomy Relating to or situated in the small, narrow spaces between tissues or parts of an organ: interstitial cells; interstitial fluid.

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  • The Interstitial Arts Foundation, as we might expect, talks about "interstitial" fiction. —  FSF,January2007
  • The latter could be injected into the interstitial area by means of a simple collapsible bulb siphon. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • But unlike other fantasy novels, this one violates no laws of physics, contains no humanoid races or talking animals or fantastic monsters; it owes more to Georgette Heyer than to Tolkien, and Gene Wolfe described it as “Noel Coward [writing] a vehicle for Errol Flynn.” It seems reasonable, then, to label the book (as the author does) interstitial: a work that falls into the interstices between traditional marketing categories. —  Strange Horizons, Dec '01
  • An almost entirely unrelated use of the term interstitial fiction appears in “Misadventure: Future Fiction and the New Networks,” by Stuart Moulthropan, an essay on hyperfiction, “interactive fiction,” and the future of fiction. —  Strange Horizons, Dec '01
  • She argues that certain writers whose work we might be tempted to call slipstream are, in fact, interstitial, that is, they prowl the borders between these literary countries. —  Asimov'sSF,Feb2004
 

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/ɪntərˈstɪʃəl/
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