noun.
Separation of the parts of a compound word by one or more intervening words; for example, where I go ever instead of wherever I go.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In grammar, a figure by which a compound word is separated into two parts, and one or more words are inserted between them: as, “of whom be thou ware also” (2 Tim. iv. 15), for “of whom beware thou also.” Also called diacope.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words.