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

This ingenious interleaving of the Bible and the Peerage found a host of admirers.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton