intervacuum

== English == === Etymology === Formed as inter- +‎ vacuum, but compare the Latin intervacō (“I am empty between”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭntəvăʹkyo͞oəm,, IPA(key): /ɪntəˈvækjuːəm/ === Noun === intervacuum (plural intervacua) An intervening empty space; a vacant interval. 1827 April, Samuel Taylor Coleridge [aut.], and Kathleen Coburn and Anthony John Harding [eds.], The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume V: “1827–1834”, part 1: ‘Text’, (2002, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, entry 5504: ff11ᵛ–12 In the distribution of the Animals themselves, the Subjects and the products of this energy, into the principal Classes, we do not suppose chasms & intervacua or empty Interspaces between the Classes, but ascend from a lower to a higher by an interliminary — and the same principle holds good in the Dynamics of Organic Nature, and the Enumeration and the Order of the three Constitutive Forms of the Vital Energy. === Adjective === intervacuum (not comparable) (physics) Between regions of vacuum (or of very low pressure) === References === “† Interva·cuum” listed on page 423 of volume V (H–K), § ii (I) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1901]  † Interva·cuum. Obs. rare. [Inter- 2 b. Cf. L. intervacāre to be empty between.] An intervening empty space; a vacant interval. [¶] 1627 E. F. Hist. Edw. II (1680) 24 The intervacuum of their absence. “†interˈvacuum” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]