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Interlocking

noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through a set of intersecting tracks, such as junctions or crossings.

    "There was still no attempt to arrange interlocking between points and signals; that came later. In 1856, John Saxby carried out the principle involved in interlocking—the prevention of signals and points being in conflicting positions—and erected apparatus to do that at this same junction."

  2. 2
    the act of interlocking or meshing wordnet
  3. 3
    contact by fitting together wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of interlock form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "All societies have three key interlocking elements: Religion, economics, and politics."

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