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1. of or relating to an interstice or interstices. 2. (Chemistry) physics forming or occurring in an interstice: an interstitial atom. 3. (Chemistry) chem containing interstitial atoms or ions: an interstitial compound. 4. (Biology) anatomy zoology occurring in the spaces between organs, tissues, etc: interstitial cells.
In Interstitial defect, atom occupies the interstitial space of the lattice structure of solid crystal. In Substitutional defect, the foreign atom occupies only the lattice site of a crystalline solid. Interstitial defect may occur by the atoms of either same solid (called self-interstitial) or foreign material. Substitutional defect is always caused by foreign atoms.