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  • noun Plural form of interspace.

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Examples

  • The air confined in the interspaces is a non-conductor, and so helps to prevent sudden chilling on the one hand, and over-heating on the other.

    Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

  • The spikelets from the trees formed a soft carpet over the route, and occasionally a brake of brambles barred the interspaces of the trunks.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • The colourless clearness that comes after the sunset flush was darkling; the blue sky above grew momentarily deeper, and the little stars one by one pierced the attenuated light; the interspaces of the trees, the gaps in the further vegetation, that had been hazy blue in the daylight, grew black and mysterious.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • An azure infinity encompassed her, the heights of sentiment sparkled under her thought, and ordinary existence appeared only afar off, down below in the shade, through the interspaces of these heights.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • In other birds this earthy residue furnishes the legs with the material for their elongation; or sometimes, in place of this, fills up the interspaces between the toes.

    On the Parts of Animals 2002

  • An inflammation that occurs in the interspaces of the tissues of the liver.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • An inflammation that occurs in the interspaces of the tissues of the liver.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • Now, fill out the interspaces with a second layer of pumice concrete that just barely covers the pipes/tubes.

    3. Precast Pumice-Concrete Building Members 1990

  • But this view has not gained general acceptance, and it seems to necessitate the postulation of an ether beyond the ether, filling the interspaces between its atoms, to obviate the difficulty of conceiving of action at a distance.

    Bygone Beliefs 1969

  • The interspaces between the, buildings were choked with forest growth, broken by a few small fields and garden plots.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

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