different between vacancy vs interstitial

English

Etymology

From vac(ant) +? -ancy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ve?k?nsi/

Noun

vacancy (countable and uncountable, plural vacancies)

1. An unoccupied position or job.
2. An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
3. Empty space.
   • 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:

     Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].

4. Lack of intelligence or understanding.
5. (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice

Related terms

• vacant (adjective)
• vacate (verb)

Translations

English

Etymology

From interstitium +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?nt??st???l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?nt???st???l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Adjective

interstitial (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or situated in an interstice.
   • 1965, Jerome F. Fredrick, Murray L. Schole, Mechanisms of Dental Caries, page 761,

     The outer surface is covered with variable amounts of dental plaque and saliva. The inner surface is bathed in interstitial fluid or lymph.

   • 2011, Chris Mulryan, Acute Illness Management, page 27,

     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.

Related terms

• interstition
• interstice

Translations

Noun

interstitial (plural interstitials)

1. (Internet, advertising) A webpage, usually carrying advertising, displayed when leaving one content page for another.
   • 2007, Barbara Ballard, Designing the Mobile User Experience, page 126,

     Interstitials should be used sparingly. Display an ad only the first time the user accesses a piece of content, not every time.

2. (physics) An interstitial discontinuity in a crystal.
   • 2008, 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,

     The second mechanism, which is the primary focus of the present paper, involves insertion of interstitials into dangling bonds at the surface.

Translations

Related terms

• prestitial