interconnect

[ in-ter-kuh-nekt ]

/ ˌɪn tər kəˈnɛkt /

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verb (used with object)

to connect with one another.

verb (used without object)

to be or become connected or interrelated.

adjective

Telecommunications.

pertaining to customer-owned equipment that is connected to or has access to the public telephone network.
pertaining to companies that supply equipment to customers: a leading interconnect company.

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Origin of interconnect

First recorded in 1860–65; inter- + connect

OTHER WORDS FROM interconnect

in·ter·con·nec·tion, noun

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How to use interconnect in a sentence

In trying to imagine our octagon with four right angles, we work inside those interconnected rules.
Some Math Problems Seem Impossible. That Can Be a Good Thing.|Patrick Honner|November 18, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Most are interconnected, meaning that one event—such as a nuclear detonation—is likely to trigger others, like water and food crises, economic depression, and world war.
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 24)|Singularity Hub Staff|October 24, 2020|Singularity Hub
Near the front of the beetle, around its vital organs, the ridges are highly interconnected — almost like zipper teeth.
The diabolical ironclad beetle can survive getting run over by a car. Here’s how|Maria Temming|October 21, 2020|Science News
To limit opportunities for the coronavirus to spread, Van Vliet’s Space Contingency Working Group divided the campus buildings, many of which are interconnected, into 13 clusters, and essentially cut them off from each other.
Research in the time of covid|Katie McLean|October 20, 2020|MIT Technology Review

The three evolutions that primaries have made since July — with regard to mail voting, turnout and problems with voting — are, of course, interconnected.
We’ve Had 56 Statewide Elections During The Pandemic. Here’s What We Learned From Them.|Nathaniel Rakich (nathaniel.rakich@fivethirtyeight.com)|October 1, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
The querulous, interconnected pamphlets printed in seventeenth-century Europe prefigure the culture of modern blogging.
Social Media is So Old Even the Romans Had It|Nick Romeo|October 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In this broken-around-the-edges world, our fates are interconnected.
Jewish Clergy Submit Letter to Congress Urging Action on Immigration Reform|Mira Sucharov|September 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The magical thinking lies not in saying that the world is interconnected, but rather in insisting that there is no overlap.
CENTCOM Commander: Unresolved Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Meant 'I Paid a Military Security Price Every Day'|Emily L. Hauser|July 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He calls the issue “interconnected” to every domestic problem in Iran.
The Rutgers Professor Who Wants to Lead Iran|Shirin Sadeghi|February 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
It works in three broad areas, all interconnected: socio-economic justice, political and human rights, and the peace process.
Whither The Israeli Left?|Brent E. Sasley|January 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Moreover, they are throughout so interconnected that an advance in one field of interest will lead to progress in general.
Elements of Folk Psychology|Wilhelm Wundt
They are reasonable effects of reason in so far as the latter is not an isolated part, but interconnected with the universe.
The Positive Outcome of Philosophy|Joseph Dietzgen
Afranio's instrument consists, he states, of two bassons as it were interconnected by tubes and blown by bellows.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3|Various
Now, these two rivers and the Mississippi River are interconnected in east-central Louisiana.
North American Recent Soft-shelled Turtles (Family Trionychidae)|Robert G. Webb
Likewise, magic is founded on the harmony of the universe; it acts by means of the forces which are interconnected by sympathy.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2|Plotinos (Plotinus)

British Dictionary definitions for interconnect

interconnect

/ (ˌɪntəkəˈnɛkt) /

verb (intr often foll by with)

to relate wellpeople I really interconnect with

to be meaningfully or complexly related or joinedthese three strands of thought interconnect

noun

a device that connects things
(as modifier)interconnect cable

Derived forms of interconnect

interconnection, noun

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