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They found that all the crystalline elements that make up the tooth are aligned in two different arrays, and that these arrays are "interdigitated," or interlocked like the fingers of folded hands, just at the tip of the tooth, where most of the wear occurs.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

They found that all the crystalline elements that make up the tooth are aligned in two different arrays, and that these arrays are "interdigitated," or interlocked like the fingers of folded hands, just at the tip of the tooth, where most of the wear occurs.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

I love the way different thought-lines are interdigitated:

Half a List : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

The Southern Andean Yungas are loosely bordered to the east by the Chaco, and tightly interdigitated to the west with Bolivian Montane Dry Forest, spanning southwestern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina.

Southern Andean Yungas 2008

The first, north of the Cuanza River, is a mosaic of tall, tropical gallery forest and tall grassland, interdigitated by mangrove and swamp communities along the major rivers and their mouths.

Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands 2008

The Bolivian Montane Dry Forests are tightly interdigitated to the east and west with Southern Andean Yungas and Puna, respectively.

Bolivian montane dry forests 2007

We have already indicated some of the main differences between the New Warfare and the Old. These now became accentuated by the extraordinary way in which the boundaries of the battling states interdigitated.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Sliding his fingers down to her hand, he interdigitated his fingers with hers, looked into her dark eyes.

The Perfect Lover Laurens, Stephanie 2003

Then her fingers, interdigitated with his, tightened; she started to ride him in earnest.

The Perfect Lover Laurens, Stephanie 2003

Over a great space of ground the sidings of the rail-head spread, the normal gauge rail-head spread out like a fan and interdigitated with the narrow gauge lines that go up practically to the guns.

War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906