INTERSECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intersect mean? 

• INTERSECT (verb)
  The verb INTERSECT has 1 sense:

1. meet at a point

  Familiarity information: INTERSECT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERSECT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they intersect    ... he / she / it intersects   
Past simple: intersected   
Past participle: intersected   
-ing form: intersecting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meet at a point

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cross; intersect

Hypernyms (to "intersect" is one way to...):

come across; encounter; meet; run across; run into; see (come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "intersect"):

cross (meet and pass)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

Our properties intersect at this point
His fields intersect mine at this point

Derivation:

intersectant (crossed or intersected in the form of an X)

intersection (the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path))

 Context examples 

The point at the base of the skull where the brainstem and cervical spine intersect.

(Cervicomedullary Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

Select the terms which best describe the degrees of therapeutic effect and side effects and record the number in the box where the two items intersect.

(CGI - Efficacy Index, NCI Thesaurus)

Spongy bone is lightweight and consists of trabeculae, which branch and intersect to form a sponge like network, and red bone marrow for hematopoiesis.

(Mature Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

A CGS unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicularly intersecting an area of one square centimeter in a region where the magnetic intensity is one gauss and 10E-8 Weber in SI.

(Maxwell, NCI Thesaurus)

“A good cyclist does not need a high road. The moor is intersected with paths, and the moon was at the full. Halloa! what is this?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is characterized by the presence of intersecting fascicles composed of spindle cells that often lack mitotic activity.

(Leiomyoma of the Central Nervous System, NCI Thesaurus)

To draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect.

(Circumscribe, NCI Thesaurus)

Assembled with BCR, CD19 decreases the threshold for antigen receptor-dependent stimulation of B lymphocyte proliferation and intersects with many intracellular signaling pathways.

(CD19 Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

Their observations revealed glowing bands in Saturn’s northern and southern hemispheres where the magnetic field lines that intersect the ring plane enter the planet.

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)

A blue heaven stretched above, a green rolling plain undulated below, intersected with hedge-rows and flecked with grazing sheep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)