intersect

Verb

Meaning

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.

To cut into one another; to meet and cross each other; as, the point where two lines intersect.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cross meet coincide converge crisscross cut across crosscut separate cut transverse break split join cutting connect
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Antonyms

cleave separate break bond connect combine
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Hypernyms

see meet encounter come across run across run into

Hyponyms

cross

Related terms

intersection intersectional intersectionality intersectionalist intersectionalism intersectionally

Derivatives

intersected intersecting

Anagrams

trinectes

Examples

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect. Carroll Quigley

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Hermann Hesse

The fight for ideals can no longer take the form of fight between nations, because the lines of division on moral questions are within the nations themselves and intersect the political frontiers. Norman Angell

Munitions and magic are circles that don't intersect very effectively. James Blish

All the rays which convey the images of objects through the air are straight lines. Hence, if the images of very large bodies have to pass through very small holes, and beyond these holes recover their large size, the lines must necessarily intersect. Leonardo da Vinci

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path. Anthony Mackie

Close letter words and terms

intersecant intersecond intersecondary intersectant intersectarian intersectin