interspace

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In desperation she leapt across the widening interspace, and fell headlong and bruised beside him.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

One imperfect specimen shows a long temporal region which is wide, and a very narrow interspace between the orbits; with a long face, indicated by the extension of narrow nasal bones.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

For indeed that short interspace of time shines out in my remembrance like a thick thread of gold in a woof of homespun.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

There are altogether in each of the storage houses 80 circular bins, each 21 ft. in diameter, and so grouped as to form 63 smaller interspace bins, or 143 bins in all.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

These scales are generally small, and placed symmetrically in close whorls, in an imbricated order, with each scale corresponding to the interspace between two scales in the whorls above and below.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles