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interlocking

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1. interlocking - Noun

2. interlocking - Verb

3. interlocking - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

contact by fitting together

linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing

the act of interlocking or meshing

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The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation. Fred Brooks

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun. Danny Elfman

Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage. Ha-Joon Chang

Negro poverty is unique is every way. It grows out of a long American history, and it expresses itself in a subculture that is buit up on an interlocking base of economic and racial injustice. It is a fact imposed from without, from white America. Michael Harrington

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests. William Hague

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