The act of combining one thing at intervals among other things:
— The interspersion of illustrations in the text.

synonym: interspersal.

Roget 73: dispersion; disjunction etc. 44; divergence etc. 291; aspersion; scattering etc. v.; dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment etc. 786; spread, respersion^†, circumfusion^†, interspersion, spargefaction^†; affusion^†.    waifs and estrays^†, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra [Lat.], [Horace]; waveson^†.    ... show more

Roget 228: interposition, interjacence^†, intercurrence^†, intervenience^†, interlocation^†, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation.    [interposition at a fine-grained level] interpenetration; permeation; infiltration.    [interposition by one person in another's affairs, at the intervenor's initiative] intervention, interference; intrusion, obtrusion; insinuation.    insertion etc. 300; dovetailing; embolism.    intermediary, intermedium^†; go between, bodkin^†, intruder, interloper; parenthesis, episode, flyleaf.    partition, septum, diaphragm; midriff; dissepiment^†; party wall, panel, room divider.    halfway house.    ... show more