intersect

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(Sometimes these two groups intersect, which is where the fun really begins.)

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  1. transitive verb To cut across or through: The path intersects the park.
  2. transitive verb To form an intersection with; cross: The road intersects the highway a mile from here.
  3. intransitive verb To cut across or overlap each other: circles intersecting on a graph.
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  • So I'm just going to intersect -- interject a little bit with some of the things that you'll see in the video. —  Ross Lovegrove shares organic designs
  • The way their lives intersect, as well as their motivations for being who they are and why they do what they do, make for fascinating reading. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 04-05 - October-November 1999
  • Our paths would intersect, and there he would be—keeping to his schedule, always wearing the white shirt and dark trousers. —  Asimov'sSF,August2008
  • (Sometimes these two groups intersect, which is where the fun really begins.) —  Express Milwaukee
  • When powerful vested interests and deeply rooted emotions intersect, the truth is only one card in the deck, hard to find, and relatively easy to stack.
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin intersecāre, intersect- : inter-, inter- + secāre, to cut; see sek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin intersectus, past participle of intersecare (later Italian intersecare = Spanish (obsolete) intersecar), cut between, cut off, from inter, between, + secure, cut: see section.
  2. intersect, v.
 

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/ɪntərˈsɛkt/
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