intersection

Noun

Meaning

The act, state, or place of intersecting.

The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

crossroad crossing overlap convergence crossroads point of intersection intersection point fork crossway product confluence meeting junction interchange carrefour
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Antonyms

fork individual separate division solution advantage
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Hypernyms

connexion point set connection representation joining

Hyponyms

fork vertex origin corner crossroads level crossing

Related terms

intersect intersectional intersectionality intersegment intersectionalist intersectionalism

Phrases with the word

butt-welded intersection intersection of the ecliptic and celestial equator outer intersection crossing intersection branch from intersection intersection syndrome

Examples

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. Amartya Sen

It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively. Archimedes

Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection. Hans Reichenbach

Every doorway, every intersection has a story. Katherine Dunn

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. Octavio Paz

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion. Alan Lightman

Close letter words and terms

intersectin intersecting intersectingly intersection of the ecliptic and celestial equator intersection point intersection syndrome