intersect
to cut or divide by passing through or across: The highway intersects the town.
to cross, as lines or wires.
Geometry. to have one or more points in common: intersecting lines.
Origin of intersect
1Other words from intersect
- non·in·ter·sect·ing, adjective
- self-in·ter·sect·ing, adjective
- un·in·ter·sect·ed, adjective
- un·in·ter·sect·ing, adjective
Words Nearby intersect
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How to use intersect in a sentence
Look for tangentially related topics to your business, where the search volumes might not be as high, but the topic still intersects with your audience and can bring relevant visitors.
Search competition: Who are you really competing with? | Andrew Dennis | July 29, 2020 | Search Engine LandIn four-dimensional space, it is possible to embed the Klein bottle so that it doesn’t intersect itself.
New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles | Kevin Hartnett | June 25, 2020 | Quanta MagazineWhat they really wanted to know was whether every rotation of the Möbius strip intersects the original copy.
New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles | Kevin Hartnett | June 25, 2020 | Quanta MagazineIn 2015 that discrimination intersected with a rapidly spreading disease, during the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak.
Tracing Homophobia In South Korea’s Coronavirus Surveillance Program | LGBTQ-Editor | June 18, 2020 | No Straight NewsIt was surrounded by walls made of large tufa blocks, while being intersected by two main streets.
Ostia Antica: Reconstruction and History of The Harbor City of Ancient Rome | Dattatreya Mandal | April 14, 2020 | Realm of History
Their lives are falling apart, but they intersect in interesting, tragic, and instructive ways.
Ted Thompson’s Debut Novel Features A 1 Percenter As Its Hero | Stefan Beck | May 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThese poems exist in the place where human invention and logic intersect.
Why Billy Collins Is America’s Most Popular Poet | Austen Rosenfeld | October 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd, of course, stories are handed down in the family of women whose lives intersect with the historical figures in the novel.
Colum McCann Talks New Novel ‘TransAtlantic’ and Narrative4 | Phil Klay | June 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWithin that broader system, different forms of discrimination intersect, feed off of, and reinforce each other.
Women of the Wall's Opposition Lifts from the Settler Playbook | Sigal Samuel | May 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe estuary where religion and politics intersect is constantly changing.
America’s Catholic Moment, and Its New Breed of Catholic Politicians | Michael Sean Winters | March 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey are for the most part straight, and intersect each other at approximate right angles.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow(e) No part of the counter shall intersect a triangle or the produced perpendicular thereof shown on p. 186.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.On the higher ridges which intersect the coast at short distances from the sea, the potatoe grows wild.
They resemble "two circles joined together so as to intersect one another slightly," or "a long oval pinched in at the middle."
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangIt is only where rivers intersect the plain that oases of luxuriant vegetation are formed.
British Dictionary definitions for intersect
/ (ˌɪntəˈsɛkt) /
to divide, cut, or mark off by passing through or across
(esp of roads) to cross (each other)
maths (often foll by with) to have one or more points in common (with another configuration)
Origin of intersect
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