interstitial

Composé de interstitium et du suffixe -al.

interstitial

1. Interstitiel.
   • The outer surface is covered with variable amounts of dental plaque and saliva. The inner surface is bathed in interstitial fluid or lymph. — (Jerome F. Fredrick, Murray L. Schole, Mechanisms of Dental Caries, page 761, 1965)
   • That he ran the risk of blowing out the stained-glass windows was of no consequence since no one liked them anyway, and the paper mill fumes were gnawing at the interstitial lead. — (Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, 1999)
   • The interstitial fluid is located between cells and the capillaries. This fluid provides a bridge between the fluid in the intravascular compartment and the intracellular compartment. Chemicals in the blood must pass through the interstitial fluid if they are to reach cells. — (Chris Mulryan, Acute Illness Management, page 27, 2011)

• interstition
• interstice

interstitial

1. (Internet) Page Web affichée avant ou après la page de contenu attendu, souvent pour afficher des publicités ou pour confirmer l’âge de l’utilisateur.
   • Interstitials should be used sparingly. Display an ad only the first time the user accesses a piece of content, not every time. — (Barbara Ballard, Designing the Mobile User Experience, p. 126, 2007)
2. (Physique) Discontinuité interstitiel dans un cristal.
   • The second mechanism, which is the primary focus of the present paper, involves insertion of interstitials into dangling bonds at the surface. — (E. G. Seebauer et al., Defect Engineering for Ultrashallow Junctions using Surfaces, in P. J. Timans, E. P. Gusev, H. Iwai, D.-L. Kwong, M. C. Öztürk, F. Roozeboom (editors), Advanced Gate Stack, Source/Drain, and Channel Engineering for Si-Based CMOS 4: New Materials, Processes, and Equipment, ECS Transactions: Volume 13, Issue 1, page 56, 2008)

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