interstitial

About 4.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of, relating to, or situated in an interstice.

   The novel's interstitial chapters.

2. noun A web page, usually carrying advertising, displayed when leaving one content page for another.

   An interstitial appeared before the download.

3. noun An interstitial discontinuity in a crystal.

Similar words

pore in-between intercellular intergranular interlaminar intervening intermediate intercalary intervallic interposed

Often followed by

fluid nephritis cells tissue space pneumonia fibrosis lung spaces water

Word family

interstitially