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intersect

[ in-ter-sekt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to cut or divide by passing through or across:
The highway intersects the town.

intersect

/ ˌɪntəˈsɛkt /

to divide, cut, or mark off by passing through or across
(esp of roads) to cross (each other)
maths often foll by with to have one or more points in common (with another configuration)

1605–15; < Latin intersectus, past participle of intersecāre “to cut through, sever”; inter- ( def ), -sect ( def )

C17: from Latin intersecāre to divide, from inter- + secāre to cut

Their lives are falling apart, but they intersect in interesting, tragic, and instructive ways.

These poems exist in the place where human invention and logic intersect.

And, of course, stories are handed down in the family of women whose lives intersect with the historical figures in the novel.

Within that broader system, different forms of discrimination intersect, feed off of, and reinforce each other.

The estuary where religion and politics intersect is constantly changing.

They are for the most part straight, and intersect each other at approximate right angles.

(e) No part of the counter shall intersect a triangle or the produced perpendicular thereof shown on p. 186.

On the higher ridges which intersect the coast at short distances from the sea, the potatoe grows wild.

They resemble "two circles joined together so as to intersect one another slightly," or "a long oval pinched in at the middle."

It is only where rivers intersect the plain that oases of luxuriant vegetation are formed.

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