interdigitate

[in-ter-dij-i-teyt]

verb (used with or without object)

interdigitated, interdigitating 

1. to interlock, as or like the fingers of both hands.

interdigitate

/ ˌɪntəˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt /

verb

1. (intr) to interlock like the fingers of clasped hands

Other Word Forms

• interdigitation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of interdigitate¹

First recorded in 1840–50; inter- + digitate

Word History and Origins

Origin of interdigitate¹

C19: from _inter- + Latin digitus (see _digit ) + _-ate ¹

Example Sentences

The researchers fabricated the new device with redesigned interdigitating electrodes that induce cell rotation and a microchannel for cell passage.

From Science Daily

It's so interesting too, how all of this interdigitates with culture in general, and with what the culture drives us for efficiency and cost cutting in the political parlance of the day.

From Salon

It is showing the extraordinary resilience of the natural world and the marvelous way in which everything interdigitates, just forms a perfect mesh.

From New York Times

They are firmly joined by bony processes; the interdigitating nature of this articulation contrasts with its homologue in the adult, the point where the roughened corners of the forelobes and hind lobes meet.

From Project Gutenberg

The ranges of the two species do not overlap in the strict sense but interdigitate in a parapatric type of distribution.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• interlace 
• interlink 
• intertwine