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Definition of Interstices
1. interstice [n] - See also: interstice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interstices
Literary usage of Interstices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military Geology and Topography: A Presentation of Certain Phases of Geology by Herbert Ernest Gregory (1918)
"They contain numerous open spaces, or interstices, which are the receptacles that
hold the ground water. There are many kinds of rocks, and they differ ..."
2. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1855)
"47-81 99-59 As the space required by the silica deposited, is much greater than
the fine capillary interstices of the calcareous substance, carbonate of ..."
3. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"From the fissures in the cone and interstices of the rock a thin white smoke was
constantly emitted, occasionally tinged with a slight bluish flame. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Air seems to consist of spires contorted into small spheres, through the interstices
of which the particles of light may freely pass ; it is light, ..."
5. On the Connection of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville (1846)
"Repulsive Force — interstices or ... but are separated by interstices, owing to
the repulsive principle that maintains them at extremely minute distances ..."
6. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... and then rubbing colouring matter into the interstices ; the piece being again
fired to fix these colours, after which a smooth transparent enamel is ..."
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