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Intersect

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To cut across or through: The path intersects the park.

v. To form an intersection with; cross: The road intersects the highway a mile from here.

verb-intransitive. To cut across or overlap each other: circles intersecting on a graph.

verb-intransitive. To form an intersection; cross: These two fences intersect at the creek.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to cross; to cut

v. of two sets, to have at least one element in common

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.

verb-intransitive. To cut into one another; to meet and cross each other.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To cut or divide into parts; lie or pass across: as, the ecliptic intersects the equator.

To cut apart; separate by intervening.

To cut into one another; meet and cross each other; have, as two geometrical loci, one or more points in common: as, intersecting lines.

n. In geometry, a point of intersection.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. meet at a point

Word Usage

"They have a nice primer to help you figure out how all the various titles intersect, which is non-trivial to keep track of in the X-Universe. continuity."

Antonym

parallel

Verb Form

intersected intersecting intersectional intersects

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

run across see encounter meet run into

Hyponym

cross

Form

intersected intersecting

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

cross cut countersect intervein interrupt

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Brecht Hecht Select affect bedecked