The time between one event, process, or period and another.

synonyms: lag, meantime, meanwhile.

Roget 198: interval, interspace^†; separation etc. 44; break, gap, opening; hole etc. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure^†, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.    gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith^†, strait, gully; pass; furrow etc. 259; abra^†; barranca^†, barranco^†; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime [Lat.], hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.]; parenthesis etc. (interjacence) 228^†; void etc. (absence) 187; incompleteness etc. 53.    [interval of time] period etc. 108; interim (time) 106.    ... show more

Roget 106: time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course etc. 109; snap.    intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency^†; intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite.    era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade etc. (period) 108; moment, etc. (instant) 113.    glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe.    ... show more

Roget 120: synchronism; coexistence, coincidence; simultaneousness, simultaneity etc. adj.; concurrence, concomitance, unity of time, interim.    [Having equal times] isochronism^†.    contemporary, coetanian^†.    ... show more

Dutch: onderwijl, ondertussen, terwijl, intussen, inmiddels, interim

Serving during an intermediate interval of time.