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interconnect

American  
[in-ter-kuh-nekt] / ˌɪn tər kəˈnɛkt /

verb (used with object)

interconnects, present (3rd person singular) interconnected, past participle, past interconnecting present participle
  1. to connect with one another.


verb (used without object)

interconnects, present (3rd person singular) interconnected, past participle, past interconnecting present participle
  1. to be or become connected or interrelated.

adjective

  1. Telecommunications.

    1. pertaining to customer-owned equipment that is connected to or has access to the public telephone network.

    2. pertaining to companies that supply equipment to customers.

      a leading interconnect company.

interconnect British  
/ ˌɪntəkəˈnɛkt /

verb

  1. to relate well

    people I really interconnect with

  2. to be meaningfully or complexly related or joined

    these three strands of thought interconnect

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

    1. a device that connects things

    2. ( as modifier )

      interconnect cable

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of interconnect

First recorded in 1860–65; inter- + connect

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They plan to advance high-speed interconnect technologies, system telemetry and cooling designs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

“AI deployment at scale requires an entire ecosystem of enabling technologies, including interconnect, optical communication, chip testing and power infrastructure,” Ng says.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

“XPO reduces networking racks by up to 75% and saves up to 44% of floor space compared to traditional pluggable optics, enabling shorter cable runs and lower-power AI scale-up interconnect technologies,” Arista said.

From Barron's May 5, 2026

"On the other hand, it could eventually serve as a valuable tool to interconnect the realms of electronics, spintronics, and quantum information technology."

From Science Daily Mar. 27, 2026

Large squarish lateral intercalary blotches of darker brown interconnect with the dorsal blotches.

From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by Duellman, William E.

The alliance will focus on Intel server racks with CPUs and AI accelerators, advancing interconnects, telemetry, and cooling.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

Connectivity has become the latest frontier amid the AI infrastructure buildout and fiber optics are replacing copper for long-distance and rack-to-rack interconnects in AI data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

Credo said the deal would give it “a vertically integrated connectivity stack” and enable it to address “both electrical and optical interconnects across the full AI infrastructure buildout.”

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

However, once metal interconnects are already present in a completed circuit layer, such temperatures would destroy them.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

There is one which interconnects the five levels.

From Lion Loose by Schmitz, James H.

Love the evocation of Harlem as a place with a cool interconnected community.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Increasingly in our interconnected, instant-access world, that’s true of life as well.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Schneller went on to explain how interconnected markets are these days so shifts in risk appetite and geopolitical developments can swiftly ripple through multiple asset classes and equity sectors.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

Like it or not, that illustrates how interconnected the world still is.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2026

Several propositions may be interconnected by a set of coherence relations, and the resulting chunk is in turn connected to others.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The single storey building consists of five separate interconnecting buildings which are located around a cloistered courtyard and communal and administration areas.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2025

"It has been known that interconnecting structures like these slightly increase the rate of cooperation," Svoboda continues.

From Science Daily Dec. 6, 2024

A neural network is, in very simple terms, a technical model formed by interconnecting a bunch of “nodes”—basically, individual mathematical functions—in an arrangement meant to resemble that of the human brain.

From Slate Aug. 17, 2023

"We're not even effectively interconnecting stationary batteries, much less mobile batteries," said Johnson.

From Salon May 4, 2023

They wound their way through interconnecting tunnels and rough-hewn burial chambers that all looked the same—the walls carved with dusty niches that might once have held bodies.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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