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Interclude

To shut off or out from a place or course, by something intervening; to intercept; to cut off; to interrupt.

Intercollegiate

Existing or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc.

Intercolline

Situated between hills; -- applied especially to valleys lying between volcanic cones.

Intercolonial

Between or among colonies; pertaining to the intercourse or mutual relations of colonies; as, intercolonial trade.

Intercolumnar

Between columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue.

Intercolumniation

The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts.

Intercoming

The act of coming between; intervention; interference.

Intercommunity

Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc.

Intercontinental

Between or among continents; subsisting or carried on between continents; as, intercontinental relations or commerce.

Interconvertible

Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.

Intercostal

Between the ribs; pertaining to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles.

Intercourse

A commingling; intimate connection or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially, interchange of thought and feeling; association; communion.

Intercrop

A crop grown among or between the rows of another crop; a catch crop.

Intercross

The process or result of cross fertilization between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants.

Intercrural

Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.

Intercur

To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.

Interdash

To dash between or among; to intersperse.

Interdenominational

Occurring between or among, or common to, different denominations; as, interdenominational fellowship or belief.

Interdental

Situated between teeth; as, an interdental space, the space between two teeth in a gear wheel.

Interdiction

The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict.

Interdictive

Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence.

Interdigital

Between the fingers or toes; as, interdigital space.

Interdigitate

To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle.

Interdome

The open space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola of masonry.

Interepimeral

Between the epimeral plates of insects and crustaceans.

Interesting

Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news.

interface

a surface forming a common boundary between two things, especially between two fluids.

Interfacial

Included between two plane surfaces or faces; as, an interfacial angle.

interfaith

involving persons of different religious faiths; as, an interfaith marriage; interfaith good will.

Interfascicular

Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue.

Interferant

One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office.

Interferometer

An instrument for measuring small movements, distances, or displacements by means of the interference of two beams of light; -- formerly also called also refractometer, but that word now has a different meaning.

Interfoliaceous

At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.

Interfollicular

Between follicles; as, the interfollicular septa in a lymphatic gland.

Interfretted

Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.

Interfusion

The act of interfusing, or the state of being interfused.

Interganglionic

Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords.

Interglobular

Between globules; -- applied esp. to certain small spaces, surrounded by minute globules, in dentine.

Intergrave

To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections.

Interhyal

Of or pertaining to a segment sometimes present at the proximal end of the hyoidean arch. An interhyal ligament or cartilage.

Interior

That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.

interiorise

to incorporate within oneself; same as interiorize.

Interjacency Interjacence

The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between.

Interjacent

Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles.

Interjangle

To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily.

Interject

To throw one's self between or among; to come between; to interpose.

Interjectional

Thrown in between other words or phrases; parenthetical; ejaculatory; as, an interjectional remark.

Interjoist

The space or interval between two joists.

Interknit

To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.

Interlace

To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave.

Interlacement

The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.

Interlapse

The lapse or interval of time between two events.

Interlay

To lay or place among or between.

Interleaf

A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.

Interleave

To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.

Interlinear Interlineal

Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.

interlingua

A language used as an intermediate language in translating from a source language to a target language; -- used especially in machine translation by computers; as, some machine translation systems use Esperanto as an interlingua.

Interlining

Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.

Interlobar

Between lobes; as, the interlobar notch of the liver; the interlobar ducts of a gland.

Interlobular

Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

Interlock

To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening.

interlocking

Connected together in such a manner that the parts work together as a single unit, or in a coordianted manner.

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