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Intersection
//ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən// noun
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Noun
- 1 The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
"Near-synonym: crossroads"
- 2 the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path) wordnet
- 3 Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
"Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little."
- 4 a junction where one street or road crosses another wordnet
- 5 The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
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- 6 a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena wordnet
- 7 The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
- 8 a point where lines intersect wordnet
- 9 The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.https://web.archive.org/web/20120214131704/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
- 10 the set of elements common to two or more sets wordnet
- 11 The pullback of a corner of monics.
- 12 a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations wordnet
Etymology
From Middle French intersection and its etymon Latin intersectiō. By surface analysis, intersect + -ion.
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