intersection
Pluralintersections
- 1A place where two or more roads cross or meet.
Like the spot where two hallways meet and you can go either way.
We waited at the busy intersection for the light to turn green.
Turn left at the next intersection and you will see the store.
Similarjunction, crossroads, crossing
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- 2A place or moment where two different things meet or come together.
Like where two roads cross, but for ideas instead of cars.
Her work sits at the intersection of art and science.
This festival explores the intersection between music and food.
Similarcrossroads, confluence, convergence, overlap, nexus
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- 3The point or points where two lines or shapes meet.
Like the spot where two pencil lines cross on paper.
We marked the intersection of the two lines on the graph.
The intersection of the circle and the line gave two points.
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- 4All the items that belong to two or more groups at the same time.
Like the middle part of two overlapping circles, where they share things.
The intersection of the two lists was just three names.
We found the intersection of both groups to see who appeared in each.
Oppositeunion
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- 5A move where two lines of skaters pass through each other.
Like two rows of dancers walking through each other without touching.
The team practiced the intersection until both lines crossed cleanly.
Judges praised the intersection where the skaters wove past each other.
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- 6In advanced math, the shared part of two smaller pieces inside the same object.
Mathematicians describe the intersection of two subobjects using a pullback.
Our category theory teacher drew two monic arrows into one object and asked us to find their intersection.
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Origin
From Latin "intersectiō," which came into English through Middle French "intersection." It can also be seen as "intersect" plus "-ion."