interdigitate

American

[in-ter-dij-i-teyt] / ˌɪn tərˈdɪdʒ ɪˌteɪt /

verb (used with or without object)

interdigitated, interdigitating

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

interdigitate British

/ ˌɪntəˈdɪdʒɪˌteɪt /

verb

(intr) to interlock like the fingers of clasped hands

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Other Word Forms

interdigitation noun

Etymology

Origin of interdigitate

First recorded in 1840–50; inter- + digitate

Example Sentences

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Figure 25.11 Podocytes Podocytes interdigitate with structures called pedicels and filter substances in a way similar to fenestrations.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

These projections interdigitate to form filtration slits, leaving small gaps between the digits to form a sieve.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

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

From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.

Its members interdigitate with their next neighbors in manifold directions, and there are no clean cuts between them anywhere.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

If this be an objectively moral universe, all acts that I make on that assumption, all expectations that I ground on it, will tend more and more completely to interdigitate with the phenomena already existing.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

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