The meaning of Intersecting

Intersecting – definition

verb
Divide (something) by passing or lying across it.
Usage examples:
The area is intersected only by minor roads
Synonims:
Bisect Divide Halve Cut in two Cut in half Cut across Cut through Cross Traverse Span

verb
Present participle of intersect
Usage examples:
The roads intersect near the bridge., this is the point where the line intersects the curve., the g…

Intersecting translation into English

Intersecting: translate from English into Chinese

相交

Intersecting: translate from English into Dutch

Kruisend

Intersecting: translate from English into French

Sécante

Intersecting: translate from English into German

Schneiden

Intersecting: translate from English into Hindi

अन्तर्विभाजक, परस्पर-छेदन

Intersecting: translate from English into Italian

Intersecante

Intersecting: translate from English into Korean

교차

Intersecting: translate from English into Russian

Пересекающиеся, Пересекающий

Intersecting: translate from English into Spanish

Intersección

Word origin

early 17th century: from Latin intersect- ‘cut, intersected’, from the verb intersecare, from inter- ‘between’ + secare ‘to cut’.

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Intersecting – similar words

intersection

noun
A point or line common to lines or surfaces that intersect.
Usage examples:
The intersection of a plane and a cone

noun
A point or set of points where two lines, planes, etc., cross
Usage examples:
Times square is one of new york’s busiest intersections.

noun
The point where two things come together and have an effect on each other
Usage examples:
Intersection of sth and sth the book looks at the intersection of religious belief and business.

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intersected

verb
Divide (something) by passing or lying across it.
Usage examples:
The area is intersected only by minor roads

verb
Past simple and past participle of intersect
Usage examples:
The roads intersect near the bridge., this is the point where the line intersects the curve., the g…

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intersect

verb
Divide (something) by passing or lying across it.
Usage examples:
The area is intersected only by minor roads

verb
To meet and go through or across
Usage examples:
[ t ] weaver street intersects palmer avenue at the next corner.

verb
If two things intersect, they come together and have an effect on each other
Usage examples:
Intersect with sth we need to pinpoint the place where maximum achievable conservation intersects w…

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Intersecting synonims

bisect

verb
Divide into two parts.
Usage examples:
A landscape of ploughland bisected by long straight roads

verb
To divide into two usually equal parts
Usage examples:
The new road would bisect a designated historic district., the bisector of an angle/segment

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cross

noun
A mark, object, or figure formed by two short intersecting lines or pieces (+ or ×).
Usage examples:
Place a cross against the preferred choice

verb
Go or extend across or to the other side of (an area, stretch of water, etc.).
Usage examples:
She has crossed the atlantic twice

adjective
Annoyed.
Usage examples:
He seemed to be very cross about something

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cut through

phrasal verb
Travel across or pass over

phrasal verb
If you cut through something difficult that usually causes problems, you quickly understand it or deal with it so that it does not cause problems for you
Usage examples:
She always manages to cut through the complex theory and get at the facts., narrow footpaths on a m…

phrasal verb
To understand something that is not easy to understand
Usage examples:
She can cut through the confusing statistics and get at the important facts.

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divide

verb
Separate or be separated into parts.
Usage examples:
Consumer magazines can be divided into a number of categories

noun
A difference or disagreement between two groups, typically producing tension.
Usage examples:
There was still a profound cultural divide between the parties

verb
To separate into parts or groups, or to cause something to separate in such a way
Usage examples:
[ t ] divide the cake into six equal parts., [ i ] the votes divided equally for and against the pr…

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halve

verb
Divide into two parts of equal or roughly equal size.
Usage examples:
Halve the aubergine lengthways

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span

noun
The full extent of something from end to end; the amount of space that something covers.
Usage examples:
A warehouse with a clear span of 28 feet

verb
(of a bridge, arch, etc.) extend from side to side of.
Usage examples:
The stream was spanned by a narrow bridge

verb
Yoke (an animal).
Usage examples:
He spanned his donkeys to the cart

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traverse

verb
Travel across or through.
Usage examples:
He traversed the forest

noun
An act of traversing something.
Usage examples:
High-level walks in the dolomites often involve steep, exposed climbs, traverses, and descents

noun
A movement performed in dressage, in which the horse moves parallel to the side of the arena, with its shoulders carried closer to the wall than its hindquarters and its body curved towards the centre.
Usage examples:
Try some travers

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