interstitial

Of, relating to, or situated in an interstice.

Adjective

  1. Of, relating to, or situated in an interstice.
    • The novel's interstitial chapters.
    • The outer surface is covered with variable amounts of dental plaque and saliva. The inner surface is bathed in interstitial fluid or lymph. - 1965, Jerome F. Fredrick, Murray L. Schole, Mechanisms of Dental Caries, page...
    • That he ran the risk of blowing out the stained-glass windows was of no consequence since no one liked them anyway, and the paper mill fumes were gnawing at the interstitial lead. - 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:

Origin

From Latin interstitiālis. By surface analysis, interstitium + -al.

Related

interstice interstition

Derived

bronchointerstitial interstitial fluid interstitial lung disease interstitially interstitial nephritis interstitial space noninterstitial prestitial tubulointerstitial

Noun

  1. A web page, usually carrying advertising, displayed when leaving one content page for another.
    • An interstitial appeared before the download.
    • Interstitials should be used sparingly. Display an ad only the first time the user accesses a piece of content, not every time. - 2007, Barbara Ballard, Designing the Mobile User Experience, page 126:
  2. An interstitial discontinuity in a crystal.
    • 2008, E. G. Seebauer et al., Defect Engineering for Ultrashallow Junctions using Surfaces, in P. J. Timans, E. P. Gusev, H. Iwai, D.-L. Kwong, M. C. Öztürk, F. Roozeboom (editors), Advanced Gate Stack, Source/Drain, and...

Forms

interstitials