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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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The report says AI infrastructure is moving toward a multi-architecture model, in which GPUs and proprietary AI accelerators coexist, increasing demand for advanced interconnect technologies.

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

Marvell expects interconnect revenue to grow over 70% in fiscal 2027, driven by networking products and optical-networking demand.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Murphy said the interconnect business is expected to grow more than 70% this fiscal year.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 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

Optical interconnects between the computer chips and network elements would mean data would remain in the optical domain, saving even more energy, Shapiro argues.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The European chip maker should benefit from demand for optical interconnects, equipment for low Earth-orbit satellites, and a recovery in the automotive and industrial end-markets, Scemama says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Lanting ticked off a list of deliverables, among them quantum interconnects, new wiring, and what he described as “some fundamentally new fab techniques for driving potentially higher-performance technology.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 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

IXI interconnects national research networks, many national public data networks and several specialized international networks.

From The Online World by Odd De Presno

Google plans to launch more TPUs into space—this time on two interconnected satellites—in 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

At the same time, a trailer-dwelling man named Clevon becomes the patriarch of multiple interconnected, large families.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

The largest circuit demonstrated in the study contained 24 interconnected bacterial colonies and was designed to add two inputs together.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 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

The Illuminated world burst to life before him, an interconnected web of brilliance.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

Inside, three glass-lined labs are linked by "clever interconnecting corridors that balance stringent security with transparency, putting science on display".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

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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