interstage

== English == === Etymology === From inter- +‎ stage. === Noun === interstage (plural interstages) (astronautics) The structure, generally containing mechanical components and instruments but no engines or fuel tanks, connecting the top of a stage of a multistage rocket to the bottom of the stage above it. (military) The components of a multistage thermonuclear weapon which channel the radiation produced by the primary's fission explosion so as to trigger the implosion of the secondary and ignite a fusion explosion in the secondary's fusion fuel. === Adjective === interstage (not comparable) Between stages. === Anagrams === argentites, estreating, integrates, reestating