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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

“AI deployment at scale requires an entire ecosystem of enabling technologies, including interconnect, optical communication, chip testing and power infrastructure,” Ng says.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 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

Visser said the company also stands to benefit from its “strong position in the interconnect and optical layers that allow AI clusters to scale beyond a single rack.”

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

Large squarish lateral intercalary blotches of darker brown interconnect with the dorsal blotches.

From The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México by Duellman, William E.

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

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

“To enable this, we provide critical hardware components that provide high-density optical interconnects while meeting aggressive power and performance targets,” he said.

From MarketWatch May 8, 2026

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

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd

Increasingly in our interconnected, instant-access world, that’s true of life as well.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Schneller went on to explain how interconnected markets are these days so shifts in risk appetite and geopolitical developments can swiftly ripple through multiple asset classes and equity sectors.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

Fellow economists Marina Gertsberg, Ekaterina Volkova and I found that the disgraced financier effectively wired corporate America into a denser, more tightly interconnected network.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2026

Three interconnected catwalks stretch into the audience, carving the space into small compartments.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

In syntactic ambiguity, there may be no single word that is ambiguous, but the words can be interconnected into more than one tree.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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 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

But it’s also a picture of unity, the interconnecting links like a long line of people standing arm in arm against intolerance and hate.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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