Definition of intersect

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

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Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Having intersecting lines or figures.
Intersection :: Intersection (n.) The act, state, or place of intersecting..
Inscription :: Inscription (n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle..
Cross :: Cross (a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
Lierne Rib :: Lierne rib () In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another..
Diclinic :: Diclinic (a.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.
Cut :: Cut (v. i.) To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument..
Spherics :: Spherics (n.) The doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry..
Orthogonal :: Orthogonal (a.) Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another..
Section :: Section (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile..
Intersection :: Intersection (n.) The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another.
Longitude :: Longitude (n.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74� or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich..
Intersecant :: Intersecant (a.) Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting.
Node :: Node (n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary..
Square :: Square (n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets..
Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (n.) A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.
Septarium :: Septarium (n.) A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals..
Intersected :: Intersected (imp. & p. p.) of Intersec.
Colure :: Colure (n.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90� from the former, and is called the solstitial colure..
Nonagesimal :: Nonagesimal (n.) The middle or highest point of the part of the ecliptic which is at any given moment above the horizon. It is the ninetieth degree of the ecliptic, reckoned from the points in which it is intersected by the horizon..
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