interstellar

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   situated, occurring, or traveling between stars

   The probe was designed to measure dust in interstellar space.

Common collocations

• interstellar medium Adjective + noun

Formed from inter- ("between, among") + stellar ("relating to stars"). Stellar comes from Latin stellaris, from stella ("star"); inter- is likewise Latin. The compound has been used in astronomy since the seventeenth century.

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