Intersect
verb
To cut across or through each other.
The streets intersect at this point
Often appears as...
- lines intersect
- streets intersect
verb
In mathematics, to have one or more points in common.
The lines intersect at a right angle
Often appears as...
- lines intersect
- curves intersect
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Technical
verb
In computing, to find a commonality or share something between sets.
The query will intersect the data sets to find common entries
Often appears as...
- data sets intersect
- array lists intersect
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Technical
verb
In statistics, to analyze or compare the relationship between datasets or groups.
We will intersect the survey results to find shared trends
Often appears as...
- survey results intersect
- data sets intersect
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verb
To cut across or through each other.
The streets intersect at this point
Often appears as...
- lines intersect
- streets intersect
verb
In mathematics, to have one or more points in common.
The lines intersect at a right angle
Often appears as...
- lines intersect
- curves intersect
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In computing, to find a commonality or share something between sets.
The query will intersect the data sets to find common entries
Often appears as...
- data sets intersect
- array lists intersect
Usage tips
Technical
verb
In statistics, to analyze or compare the relationship between datasets or groups.
We will intersect the survey results to find shared trends
Often appears as...
- survey results intersect
- data sets intersect
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Crossing
Used to describe where two roads, paths, or similar lines literally cross each other.
The cycling path intersects the main road, so be careful.
Pro Tip 2/3Meet at Point
Emphasize that 'intersect' points to a specific location where two lines meet.
Tourists can see where the city's old and new walls intersect.
Pro Tip 3/3Direction Immaterial
The direction of the roads or paths is not important, just the point where they cross.
The hiking trails intersect at several points in the forest.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Crossing
Used to describe where two roads, paths, or similar lines literally cross each other.
The cycling path intersects the main road, so be careful.
Pro Tip 2/3Meet at Point
Emphasize that 'intersect' points to a specific location where two lines meet.
Tourists can see where the city's old and new walls intersect.
Pro Tip 3/3Direction Immaterial
The direction of the roads or paths is not important, just the point where they cross.
The hiking trails intersect at several points in the forest.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Crossing
Used to describe where two roads, paths, or similar lines literally cross each other.
The cycling path intersects the main road, so be careful.
Pro Tip 2/3Meet at Point
Emphasize that 'intersect' points to a specific location where two lines meet.
Tourists can see where the city's old and new walls intersect.
Pro Tip 3/3Direction Immaterial
The direction of the roads or paths is not important, just the point where they cross.
The hiking trails intersect at several points in the forest.
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An ingenious proposal...
However, creating marine protected areas isn't easy. First, you have the issue of figuring out where to protect. This coral reef overlaps with that international fishing route, intersects with this fish hatchery. Everything is interconnected. And marine protection plans must take into account how one area affects another.
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Jackson Katz: Violence...
What are the roles of various institutions in helping to produce abusive men? What's the role of religious belief systems, the sports culture, the pornography culture, the family structure, economics, and how that intersects, and race and ethnicity and how that intersects? How does all this work?
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Performing brain surgery...
to reach the target and adjust the intensity within each beam as necessary. This helps spare critical structures within the brain. But what exactly does this ingenious approach do to the tumors in question? When several beams of radiation intersect to strike a mass of cancerous cells,
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How synthetic biology...
and thousands of life science grad students are enabled? Are every single one of them going to be perfectly stable? Or how about a few years after that, where every stress-ridden premed is fully enabled? At some point in that time frame, these circles are going to intersect,
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Michael Hansmeyer:...
And because we're doing the folding on the computer, we are completely free of any physical constraints. So that means that surfaces can intersect themselves, they can become impossibly small. We can make folds that we otherwise could not make. Surfaces can become porous.
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Time Travel PIPE National...
wormholes would require an advanced super civilization with the power of the galaxies at their fingertips mallet claims his time machine could be built not in the future but today what you're seeing are four intersecting laser beams that are forming a square in which the
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The Key to Media's...
green means go, for the system to work. Otherwise it would be chaos. Secondly, codes are made meaningful by their context. We can't fully interpret or decipher a code until we see how it relates to other signs and symbols. Look at these two intersecting lines.
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Nora Flanagan: What...
First and foremost, engaging the parents. Historically, we've isolated parents and teachers, schools and neighborhoods. We say otherwise, but the influential forces in a kid's life rarely intersect with any depth. We have parent-teacher conferences,
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Uğur Şahin and Özlem...
and your sense of the importance of this work. How would you characterize those intersecting relationships there? We are really two scientists. At the end of the day, we love what we do, and for us,
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The role of fractals...
the campus design has two main access learning and living and from this to access the factor pattern diminishes the heart of the campus is the wisdom Center where all the connections intersect
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An ingenious proposal...
However, creating marine protected areas isn't easy. First, you have the issue of figuring out where to protect. This coral reef overlaps with that international fishing route, intersects with this fish hatchery. Everything is interconnected. And marine protection plans must take into account how one area affects another.
Video examples
Jackson Katz: Violence...
What are the roles of various institutions in helping to produce abusive men? What's the role of religious belief systems, the sports culture, the pornography culture, the family structure, economics, and how that intersects, and race and ethnicity and how that intersects? How does all this work?
Video examples
Performing brain surgery...
to reach the target and adjust the intensity within each beam as necessary. This helps spare critical structures within the brain. But what exactly does this ingenious approach do to the tumors in question? When several beams of radiation intersect to strike a mass of cancerous cells,
Video examples
How synthetic biology...
and thousands of life science grad students are enabled? Are every single one of them going to be perfectly stable? Or how about a few years after that, where every stress-ridden premed is fully enabled? At some point in that time frame, these circles are going to intersect,
Video examples
Michael Hansmeyer:...
And because we're doing the folding on the computer, we are completely free of any physical constraints. So that means that surfaces can intersect themselves, they can become impossibly small. We can make folds that we otherwise could not make. Surfaces can become porous.
Video examples
Time Travel PIPE National...
wormholes would require an advanced super civilization with the power of the galaxies at their fingertips mallet claims his time machine could be built not in the future but today what you're seeing are four intersecting laser beams that are forming a square in which the
Video examples
The Key to Media's...
green means go, for the system to work. Otherwise it would be chaos. Secondly, codes are made meaningful by their context. We can't fully interpret or decipher a code until we see how it relates to other signs and symbols. Look at these two intersecting lines.
Video examples
Nora Flanagan: What...
First and foremost, engaging the parents. Historically, we've isolated parents and teachers, schools and neighborhoods. We say otherwise, but the influential forces in a kid's life rarely intersect with any depth. We have parent-teacher conferences,
Video examples
Uğur Şahin and Özlem...
and your sense of the importance of this work. How would you characterize those intersecting relationships there? We are really two scientists. At the end of the day, we love what we do, and for us,
Video examples
The role of fractals...
the campus design has two main access learning and living and from this to access the factor pattern diminishes the heart of the campus is the wisdom Center where all the connections intersect
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Natasha Trethewey
American Poet
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
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Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Sustainable solutions based on innovation can create a more resilient world only if that innovation is focused on the health and well-being of its inhabitants. And it is at that point - where technology and human needs intersect - that we will find meaningful innovation.
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Forest Whitaker
American Actor
I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Jon Katz
American Journalist
Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
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Hermann Hesse
German Novelist
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
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Robin S. Sharma
Canadian Lawyer
Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.
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Robert Casey
American Politician
The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.
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Dorothy Allison
American Writer
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects.
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Natasha Trethewey
American Poet
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
Quote examples
Frans van Houten
Dutch Businessman
Sustainable solutions based on innovation can create a more resilient world only if that innovation is focused on the health and well-being of its inhabitants. And it is at that point - where technology and human needs intersect - that we will find meaningful innovation.
Quote examples
Forest Whitaker
American Actor
I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
Quote examples
Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
Quote examples
Jon Katz
American Journalist
Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
Quote examples
Hermann Hesse
German Novelist
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Quote examples
Robin S. Sharma
Canadian Lawyer
Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.
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Robert Casey
American Politician
The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.
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Dorothy Allison
American Writer
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
Quote examples
Holly Hunter
American Actress
The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects.
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