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inter se

American  
[in-ter see, in-ter se] / ˈɪn tər ˈsi, ˈɪn tɛr ˈsɛ /

noun

  1. (italics) among or between themselves.

  2. Animal Husbandry. the mating of closely related animals to each other.


inter se British  
/ ˈɪntə ˈseɪ /

adverb

  1. among or between themselves

"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

Etymology

Origin of inter se

First recorded in 1885–90, inter se is from Latin inter sē

Example Sentences

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The "inner college" will therefore merely stress the contacts inter se which students at large universities do not often enjoy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Further, the price-level is not, on Professor Fisher's own scheme, a factor in determining the relations of the prices of sugar and of wheat inter se.

From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson

He did so in a publication entitled: "Farrago Confusanearum et inter se Dissidentium Opinionum de Coena Domini—Medley of Confused and Mutually Dissenting Opinions on the Lord's Supper, compiled from the books of the Sacramentarians," 1552.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

The luminosities of this white light, of the reflected beam, and of the spectral colour are compared "inter se," and there are then sufficient data with which to make numerical registration.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney

Calvin had previously directed attention to the circumstance that the following verse also is in favour of the translation by tollere: "Servare et tollere inter se opponit propheta."

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

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