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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

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

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

The photonic interconnect work was funded through an agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory, IonQ said.

From Barron's Apr. 14, 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 William E. Duellman

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 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

Achieving that vision will require improvements in supporting technologies such as light sources, modulators, detectors, and interconnects.

From Science Daily May 30, 2026

Credo said the deal will position the company to address the demand for both electrical and optical interconnects through a vertically integrated stack that includes its SerDes and digital signal processor technology.

From MarketWatch Apr. 14, 2026

There is one which interconnects the five levels.

From Lion Loose by James H. Schmitz

In many cases, the two human influences were interconnected.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 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

It’s all interconnected in awkward and interesting ways.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

“It’s essential that we work to address the complex and interconnected challenges Californians face from the increasing risk of catastrophic wildfire,” Martinez said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 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

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

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

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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