Hypertext Webster Gateway: "interim"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Interim \In"ter*im\, n. [L., fr. inter between + im, an old
accusative of is he, this, that.]
1. The meantime; time intervening; interval between events,
etc.
All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous
dream. --Shak.
2. (Hist.) A name given to each of three compromises made by
the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of
harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and
Catholics.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
interim
adj : serving during an intermediate interval of time; "an interim
agreement"
n : the time between one event, process, or period and another
[syn: {lag}]
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