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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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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 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

The company said it expects its interconnect revenue to grow by more than 50% in fiscal 2027.

From Barron's Apr. 9, 2026

The ends of this pipe are conically drilled and they interconnect; there is no drilled hole connecting the bowl with the mouth end, as in the larger specimen.

From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by William C. Massey

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

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

The team connected the layers using vertical metal interconnects and successfully demonstrated three-dimensional logic circuits as well as static random-access memory cells.

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

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

It’s all interconnected in awkward and interesting ways.

From Slate Aug. 6, 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

According to this view, consciousness depends not only on how much information a system contains, but also on how deeply its parts are interconnected.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

We should not see the enslaved people simply as victims, but rather as actors—as the heralds of the interconnected world in which we all live today.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

One of three Bangkok studios the “Alien: Earth” production occupied housed the zoo, mess hall and engineering room sets and their interconnecting corridors on a single stage.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

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

Fish benefit most when they have access to a mosaic of interconnecting habitat from streamside vegetation to open floodplains, the research found.

From Science Daily Mar. 14, 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

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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