Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cut across or through: The path intersects the park.
- v. To form an intersection with; cross: The road intersects the highway a mile from here.
- v. To cut across or overlap each other: circles intersecting on a graph.
- v. To form an intersection; cross: These two fences intersect at the creek.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cut or divide into parts; lie or pass across: as, the ecliptic intersects the equator.
- To cut apart; separate by intervening.
- To cut into one another; meet and cross each other; have, as two geometrical loci, one or more points in common: as, intersecting lines. In the ordinary language of geometry a curve and its tangent are not said to intersect, but in a more careful use of language they no doubt would be said to do so. See extract under intersection, 2.
- n. In geometry, a point of intersection.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
- v. To cut into one another; to meet and cross each other.
WordNet 3.0
- v. meet at a point
Etymologies
- From Latin intersecare ("to cut between, cut off"), from inter ("between") + secare ("to cut"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin intersecāre, intersect- : inter-, inter- + secāre, to cut; see sek- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They have a nice primer to help you figure out how all the various titles intersect, which is non-trivial to keep track of in the X-Universe. continuity.”
“The point at which these two curves intersect is the equilibrium point, which is also known as “perfect competition” and is generally held up — by economists, anyway — as the goal for all markets.”
“To most “normal” people the question of where the laws of the state and the laws of war intersect is a difficult one.”
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“I think about where A & B intersect is where B takes an upward turn.”
“However, as an illustrator, to not explore the territory where these two vectors intersect is short-changing the audience, the client, the author, the book, and myself.”
“Draw a line between Seattle and Boise, then draw another line between Portland and Missoula, and where those two lines intersect is where I went spent four years of my life.”
“I think the point where they intersect is a car crash. fun & comedy » Blog Archive » No idea what’s ahead.”
“I've been trying to find a piece for Sirenia Digest located at the place where cannibalism and tooth pain intersect.”
“Rarely, however, do the two intersect, which is why the Sunshine State marveled on Monday at the fate of Jennifer”
“(Sometimes these two groups intersect, which is where the fun really begins.)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘intersect’.
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See extract
Being a list of words which have the phrase "see extract" in their definitions. You might also find a few which have "see extract under" or "see the extract."
glove-sheep, clang, bookmaker, lackadaisical, apprehend, interfluvial, fortunate, intersect, cannelon, adoration, canter, headrace and 10 more...
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patterns
ergodic, stochastic, stereopsis, echolocation, holocation, broker, map, intarsia, encipher, ocellus, muslin, mandelbrot set and 159 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Weekly list(04-10/10/2010)
ongoing, broaden, enhance, intersect, intimate, intrusive, mentor, obligation, reassurance, enliven, involve, reward and 2 more...
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