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interlapse

noun · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The time between two events.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gap, interval, between-time, interim, interlapse, lapse, meantime, meanwhile

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The distance between two things.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, rare

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gap, separation, break, interlapse, interspace, interstice, interstitium, opening, space

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To elapse (between two events).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • 1821, The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Sixteenth Congress—Second Session, Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1855, “South American States,” p. 1050, But the time which has interlapsed since the adoption of the resolution has given us indubitable evidence of the course of policy which the President is resolved to pursue.
  • 1916, Illinois Public Utilities Commission, Public Utilities Report, in Public Utilities Reports Annotated, Rochester, NY: The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, p. 310, We must at every step of the way outline to ourselves the necessary lengths of interlapsing time to do all these things, as well as the amount of labor to design, contract for, and actually build each structure.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: intervene

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To be situated between.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, rare

Examples

  • 1895, William Sharp (as Fiona Macleod), The Mountain Lovers, London: John Lane, Chapter 1, p. 13, But when the pool, save for the margins, was all one wave of interlapsing gold and silver, the shadow-shape at last raised a shaggy peaked head.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From inter- + lapse.