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intersection

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In geometry, an intersection is a point, line, or curve common in two or more objects (such as lines, curves, planes, and surfaces). The most simple case in Euclidean geometry is the intersection points of two distinct lines , that is either one point or ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares. 2 (context geometry English) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect). ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"act or fact of crossing," 1550s, from Middle French intersection (14c.) and directly from Latin intersectionem (nominative intersectio ) "a cutting asunder, intersection," noun of action from past participle stem of intersecare "intersect, cut asunder," ...

Usage examples of intersection.

The on-screen image showed her bag of corn chips on the counter--beyond it and her own image Andi could see down the candy isle to the window and the intersection beyond.

Local cops waited nervously at intersections, hoping the Angels would pass quietly and not cause trouble.

So we rode to Knoxville with our comical cabdriver, acquired a rental car at the airport, and found ourselves, shortly after midday, heading north out of Knoxville through a half-remembered world of busy roads, dangling traffic signals, vast intersections, huge signs, and acre upon acre of shopping malls, gas stations, discount stores, muffler clinics, car lots, and all the rest.

When Caliban first approached a busy intersection, the datastore showed him a diagram of the correct procedure for crossing a street safely.

At the intersection of Canopic and Royal Avenues he invaded the agora, a vast open space surrounded on all four sides by a wide arcade with a dark red back wall, and fronted by blue-painted Doric pillars.

The Hill of Pan became his lookout, its bottom now a formidable rampart of blocks from the gymnasium, and huge stone walls cut off both sides of Canopic Avenue at its intersection with Royal Avenue.

Ques suddenly veered to the left, almost grazing the fenders of cars just released from the red light at the intersection of El Centro and Fountain Avenue.

And then the dam broke as the Chadian army mounted a charge and reamed out the intersection.

Once he had the location pinpointed it took him only minutes to get to the described intersection of Dardanian passageways.

But Debs just clamped her jaw tight and squealed around the truck and through the intersection, ignoring the horns and the fountain of water from the ruptured hydrant, and closing the gap again in the next block.

Just a bit of Third, and the edge of the intersection where Deo should be waiting.

The intersection of Dauphine and Bienville still retained some of the character of the French Quarter Doodlebug remembered from his childhood, decades before most of the Quarter metamorphosed into a tarted-up tourism gold mine.

Eight months ago, in wolf form, Doodlebug had followed Jules from the Warehouse District to this very intersection and had watched him give away his car.

The slidewalk came to a halt at a four-level intersection, and we stepped into the downflow and floated back down to street level, then stepped onto the expresswalk, stood behind the transparent windbreak, and secured our feet, then waited while the inevitable indecisive passenger delayed us for almost a full minute while deciding which windbreak to stand behind.

He let the horse amble until they came to an intersection with a collection of fingerposts pointing in different directions: Fifehead Neville, Okeford Fitzpaine, Sturminster Newton.