interleaving

American  

[in-ter-lee-ving] / ˌɪn tərˈli vɪŋ /

noun

Computers.

1. a method for making data retrieval more efficient by rearranging or renumbering the sectors on a hard disk or by splitting a computer's main memory into sections so that the sectors or sections can be read in alternating cycles.

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Example Sentences

And critically, there is overlap between cases in which A beats B and A loses to C. This interleaving of the numbers on the faces enables the intransitivity.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2023

Like Stephen King, another inspiration here, Knausgaard stays shoulder-close to his characters, his paragraphs mimicking the erratic interleaving of their thoughts.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2021

A formal relationship between the degree of interleaving and the frequency of scutoids seems possible, which would make these continuous and discrete measures usefully interchangeable.

From Nature • Sep. 9, 2018

The Wire’s novelistic ambition messed with standard rhythms of television, interleaving drama with the “anti-drama” of everyday life.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2018

For example, some of the oil fields occur in great delta deposits, where successive advances and retreats of the sea have resulted in the interleaving of marine and land deposits.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)