intersect

[ in-ter-sekt ]

verb (used with object)

1. to cut or divide by passing through or across:

   The highway intersects the town.

verb (used without object)

1. to cross, as lines or wires.
2. Geometry. to have one or more points in common:

   intersecting lines.

intersect

/ ˌɪntəˈsɛkt /

verb

1. to divide, cut, or mark off by passing through or across
2. (esp of roads) to cross (each other)
3. maths often foll by with to have one or more points in common (with another configuration)

Other Words From

• nonin·ter·secting adjective
• self-inter·secting adjective
• unin·ter·sected adjective
• unin·ter·secting adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of intersect¹

1605–15; < Latin intersectus, past participle of intersecāre “to cut through, sever”; inter- ( def ), -sect ( def )

Word History and Origins

Origin of intersect¹

C17: from Latin intersecāre to divide, from inter- + secāre to cut

Example Sentences

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.

From Search Engine Land

In four-dimensional space, it is possible to embed the Klein bottle so that it doesn’t intersect itself.

From Quanta Magazine

What they really wanted to know was whether every rotation of the Möbius strip intersects the original copy.

From Quanta Magazine

In 2015 that discrimination intersected with a rapidly spreading disease, during the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak.

From No Straight News

It was surrounded by walls made of large tufa blocks, while being intersected by two main streets.

From Realm of History

Their lives are falling apart, but they intersect in interesting, tragic, and instructive ways.

From The Daily Beast

These poems exist in the place where human invention and logic intersect.

From The Daily Beast

And, of course, stories are handed down in the family of women whose lives intersect with the historical figures in the novel.

From The Daily Beast

Within that broader system, different forms of discrimination intersect, feed off of, and reinforce each other.

From The Daily Beast

The estuary where religion and politics intersect is constantly changing.

From The Daily Beast

They are for the most part straight, and intersect each other at approximate right angles.

From Project Gutenberg

(e) No part of the counter shall intersect a triangle or the produced perpendicular thereof shown on p. 186.

From Project Gutenberg

On the higher ridges which intersect the coast at short distances from the sea, the potatoe grows wild.

From Project Gutenberg

They resemble "two circles joined together so as to intersect one another slightly," or "a long oval pinched in at the middle."

From Project Gutenberg

It is only where rivers intersect the plain that oases of luxuriant vegetation are formed.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• converge
• cross