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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *sek- Proto-Indo-European *sékh₁yeti English intersect From Latin intersecāre (“to cut between, cut off”), from inter (“between”) + secare (“to cut”).
Verb
intersect (third-person singular simple present intersects, present participle intersecting, simple past and past participle intersected)
- (ambitransitive) To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
Parallel lines don't intersect. Any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the centre.
- (mathematics) Of two sets, to have at least one element in common.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to cross each other; to cut each other
- Arabic: تَقَاطَعَ (taqāṭaʕa)
- Armenian: հատել (hy) (hatel) (active voice), հատվել (hy) (hatvel) (passive voice)
- Azerbaijani: kəsişmək, çarpazlaşmaq
- Bulgarian: пресичам се (presičam se), кръстосвам се (krăstosvam se)
- Catalan: intersecar (ca)
- Finnish: ristetä (fi), leikata (fi)
- French: intersecter (fr), interséquer
- German: sich schneiden
- Ido: intersekar (io)
- Interlingua: intersecar
- Italian: intersecare (it)
- Māori: pūtahi
- Naga:
- Khiamniungan Naga: vìangthàh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skjære (no), gjennomskjære
- Polish: przecinać (pl), przecinać się (pl), krzyżować (pl), krzyżować się (pl)
- Portuguese: intersectar, intersetar
- Spanish: intersecarse (es), interseccionar (es)
- Welsh: croestorri, trawstorri
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Etymology 2
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *sek- Proto-Indo-European *sékh₁yeti English intersect From inter- + sect.
Adjective
intersect (comparative more intersect, superlative most intersect)
- Between sects; intersectarian.
Further reading
- “intersect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “intersect”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “intersect”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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