interconnect
Americanverb (used with object)
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interconnects,
present (3rd person singular)
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interconnected,
past participle, past
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interconnecting
present participle
verb (used without object)
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interconnects,
present (3rd person singular)
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interconnected,
past participle, past
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interconnecting
present participle
adjective
verb
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to relate well
people I really interconnect with
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to be meaningfully or complexly related or joined
these three strands of thought interconnect
noun
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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interconnectsimple
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interconnectssimple
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have interconnectedperfect
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has interconnectedperfect
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am interconnectingprogressive
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are interconnectingprogressive
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is interconnectingprogressive
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have been interconnectingperfect progressive
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has been interconnectingperfect progressive
Past
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interconnectedsimple
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had interconnectedperfect
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was interconnectingprogressive
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were interconnectingprogressive
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had been interconnectingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of interconnect
Example Sentences
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Digitimes says the shift should create opportunities across the supply chain, from switch and interconnect chipmakers to suppliers of cables, connectors and optical components, particularly in Taiwan’s hardware ecosystem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Innolight has been the largest provider of optical interconnect solutions by revenue for five consecutive years since 2021, accounting for over one fifth of the overall market in 2025, it said in the prospectus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The company said in its recent earnings that it expects interconnect revenue to grow by more than 70% in fiscal 2027, up from 50% previously.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Will Summerlin at Autopilot Ventures buys the builders, including data-center contractors, optical interconnect startups and small modular nuclear reactor companies.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
Large squarish lateral intercalary blotches of darker brown interconnect with the dorsal blotches.
From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by William E. Duellman
Optical interconnects transmit data using light and can provide the high bandwidth and energy efficiency increasingly required as AI networks scale, she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
He also sees silicon photonics emerging as a key growth driver as expanding AI clusters drive demand for faster optical interconnects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
However, once metal interconnects are already present in a completed circuit layer, such temperatures would destroy them.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
The company is “a key beneficiary of optical transceivers’ multi-year supercycle,” Lee said in a Tuesday note, pointing to a shift toward optical interconnects as traditional copper-based wiring reaches limits in artificial-intelligence data centers.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
IXI interconnects national research networks, many national public data networks and several specialized international networks.
From The Online World by Odd De Presno
According to Laura Miller, Mandel expertly weaves together an interconnected cast of characters in this “lovely, meditative new novel.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
At the same time, a trailer-dwelling man named Clevon becomes the patriarch of multiple interconnected, large families.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
While there have been Facebook groups and accounts on other major social media sites posting about Ceuta, it was on Instagram where I found the most active and prevalent group of interconnected accounts.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Gilbert plans to take down two buildings in Detroit’s Renaissance Center, the group of seven interconnected skyscrapers that has defined the skyline since the 1970s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
This is not much of a coincidence, since most of the royal houses of Europe at the time were interconnected by a web of political marriages.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
The incidents led to the closure of both berths at the port because of the "interconnecting nature" of the support structures - the terminals run parallel to each other.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
With less use, the nervous system wiring throughout the white adipose tissue gradually retracts, and what was once a dense network of interconnecting nerves becomes sparse.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 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
He views science as an integrated web of interconnecting hypotheses, procedures, and formalisms, and argues that any impact of the world on the web can be distributed in many different ways.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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