单词 | interstice |
释义 | intersticen. 1. a. An intervening space (usually, empty); esp. a relatively small or narrow space, between things or the parts of a body (frequently in plural, the minute spaces between the ultimate parts of matter); a narrow opening, chink, or crevice. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > intervening space > small interstitium1598 interstice1603 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 848 When it is carried to the interstice or place between the browes, the very seat of reason. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 87 When the ayery intersticies are filled, and as much of the salt of the ashes as the water will imbibe is dissolved. View more context for this quotation a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) I. 45 The great wooden Bridge (over the Thames) hath twenty Interstices. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 56 The interstices of water are always found full of air. 1833 H. Martineau Three Ages iii. 89 He found an interstice, through which he could slip half-a-dozen burnt almonds. 1839 Stephens Man. Brit. Coleoptera 47 Elytra striated, interstices finely punctulated. b. Physics. The space between adjacent atoms or ions in a crystal lattice. Cf. interstitial adj. 2e. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal lattice > [noun] > interstitial space interstice1933 1933 W. H. Bragg & W. L. Bragg Crystalline State I. vii. 158 The atoms of H, N, C, or B are placed in the interstices of the metallic structures... Such structures are called Einlagerungsstrukturen by Hägg, and will be referred to here as ‘interstitial structures’... All hydrides and nitrides [of transition elements], and some carbides, fall within the first category of interstitial compounds. 1940 F. Seitz Mod. Theory Solids xiv. 496 The interstices of metals forming substitutional alloys usually are much smaller than the atomic size. 1942 M. C. Sneed & J. L. Maynard Gen. Inorg. Chem. xlvii. 1108 The interstices in a metal lattice are small, hence only the smallest metalloid atoms, C, N, B and H, can form such compounds and solid solutions. 1972 J. M. Gross & B. Wiseall Princ. Physical Chem. xix. 39 The holes or interstices formed between the layers of spheres in close-packed structures are of two different types, (a) tetrahedral interstices and (b) octahedral interstices. 2. a. An intervening space of time; an interval between actions. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation > between two events, actions, operations, etc. intervalc1386 intervallum1574 wheta1628 interstice1639 period1865 grace period1880 tea break1948 1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 69 Long inter-regnums or interstices in government is the Winter and ill Season of a State. 1689 Reflect. Late & Present Proc. in Eng. 10 There must be some Interstice, some space of time, before they who depos'd a King can set up another. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 179 I will endeavour to point out the Interstices of Time, which ought to be between one Citation and another. 1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. (1873) iii. x. 239 Who look to the little intervals and interstices of work as so much time which may be freely wasted. b. spec. in Canon Law (plural) The intervals required between the reception of the various degrees of holy orders. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > [noun] > intervals between ranks interstice1756 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints II. 560 The irregularity committed in his receiving the holy orders of deacon and priest at the same time, without observing the interstices prescribed by the canons. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 454/2 A bishop cannot dispense with the interstices in ordaining candidates coming to him from another diocese. Derivatives intersticed adj. rare having interstices; also, fitted at intervals with something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [adjective] > forming an intervening space > having nature or quality of small > having small intersticed1848 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > covered with something scattered > at intervals intersticed1848 intersprinkled1898 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. v. vii. 56 Through the intersticed columns of the fane, Edith saw the large shadow of a man. 1888 Voice (N.Y.) 6 Sept. His bare back was inflamed with scourges intersticed with pieces of lead and bone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1603 |
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