Intersect
[ɪntə'sekt] or ['ɪntɚ'sɛkt]
Definition
(v. t.) To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts; as, any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center.
(v. i.) To cut into one another; to meet and cross each other; as, the point where two lines intersect.
Inputed by Abner
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Cross.
v. n. Cross each other.
Checker: Michelle
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INTERLACE]
Typist: Mag
Definition
v.t. to cut between or asunder: to cut or cross mutually: to divide into parts.—v.i. to cross each other.—n. Intersec′tion intersecting: (geom.) the point or line in which two lines or two planes cut each other.—adj. Intersec′tional.
Edited by Della
Examples
- These two roads intersect nearly a mile west of the crossing of the latter over Owl Creek, where our right rested. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had recently built several canals on this property, and was at the head of a number of companies which were planning to intersect England with waterways. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The rhomb was divided into thirty-six equal parts by ten cross lines, and the needles were placed at the points where the lines intersected, as shown in the diagram. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The moor is intersected with paths, and the moon was at the full. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They had not yet seen me, and so I lost no time in slipping into the first intersecting corridor that I could find. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Suddenly I heard the shuffling noise at my right, and, looking, saw another pair of eyes, evidently approaching from an intersecting corridor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I dared not attempt to halt in the darkness of any of the many intersecting corridors, for I knew nothing of the direction they might take. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I rode forward, or rather back, to where the middle road intersects the north road, and found the skirmishers of Carr's division just coming in. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Griffin was attacked near where the Quaker Road intersects the Boydton Road, but repulsed it easily, capturing about one hundred men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Mervin