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interlock
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interlock \In`ter*lock"\, v. t.
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To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening.
My lady with her fingers interlocked.
--Tennyson. To connect together so that the parts work together as a coordinated unit; to connect as a single system.
Interlock \In`ter*lock"\, v. i. To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions. vb. 1 To fit together securely. 2 To interlace.
WordNet
n. the act of interlocking or meshing; "an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check" [syn: mesh, meshing, interlocking]
v. coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively [syn: mesh]
hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck" [syn: lock, interlace]
become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace" [syn: lock]
Wikipedia
Interlock can refer to the following:
- Ignition interlock device
- Interlock (band) an industrial/alternative metal band
- Interlock (engineering)
- Interlocking (railway signaling)
- Interlock (cinema projection)
- Interlocking tower
- an interlocked hutch in a synchrotron radiation beamline protects user from being accidentally exposed to radiation when a beamline is active
- Interlock Protocol, a cryptographic protocol designed to thwart eavesdropping when using an anonymous key exchange protocol, such as Diffie-Hellman
- Interlock role-playing system
- Interlocking spur: landsliding occurring in a river's upper course which modifies the river bed pattern
- Mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures in Supramolecular chemistry comprises a.o., Catenane and Rotaxane molecules, and Molecular knot
- Interlock fabric, a double-knitted jersey fabric.
An interlock is a feature that makes the state of two mechanisms or functions mutually dependent. It may be used to prevent undesired states in a finite-state machine, and may consist of any electrical, electronic, or mechanical devices or systems. In most applications, an interlock is used to help prevent a machine from harming its operator or damaging itself by preventing one element from changing state due to the state of another element, and vice versa. Elevators are equipped with an interlock that prevents the moving elevator from opening its doors, and prevents the stationary elevator (with open doors) from moving. Although both are idiot proof strategies, an interlock should not be confused with a simple safety switch. For example, in a typical household microwave oven, the switch that disables the magnetron if the door is opened is not an interlock. Rather, it would be considered an interlock if the door were locked while the magnetron is on, and the magnetron were prevented from operating while the door is open. Interlocks may include sophisticated elements such as curtains of infrared beams, photodetectors, a computer containing an interlocking computer program, digital or analogue electronics, or simple switches and locks.
Interlock was a British industrial metal band, from London, formed in 1996, by John Tyrell (guitars/programming) and Syan (bass) and disbanded in 2008.
Usage examples of "interlock".
Already I was aware that the interlocked radiator grilles of our cars formed the model of an inescapable and perverse union between us.
On it, he could see the impress of his rough frieze, a pink trough of interlocking chainwork, where she had gripped him so hard.
They fumbled with levers embedded in their integral backpacks, setting in motion some powerful, hidden engine that dragged them off the streets and into the air as the belt-pulley turned, its powerful cogs interlocking and hauling the dark, bulky figures back up into the belly of their airship.
That war, and its long-drawn sequelae, released the human mind to the potentialities and dangers of an imperfectly Europeanized world--a world which had unconsciously become one single interlocking system, while still obsessed by the Treaty of Westphalia and the idea of competing sovereign states.
Two constables sat at a table in the larger room, one with hands interlocked behind his head, looking directly at the observer.
George had already removed two others from her back who had interlocked their hips well enough for both to use her rectum.
The obverse of the gypsum panel, out in the hall, was covered in the faded Jugendstil paper, a pattern of tall interlocking poppies, that decorated all the hallways of the building.
The spikes stand in such a position that, when the lobes close, they interlock like the teeth of a rattrap.
The ceiling of interlocked palmlike fronds did not so much block sunlight as filter it, dappling the forest floor in yellows and greens.
The interlocking fangs which protruded sicklelike from both jaws parted slightly, revealing an uninviting dark gullet.
But more than a century ago, Borgo Prime had been stripped clean of even the least-desirable ore- leaving a spongelike network of interlocked caves, fully equipped with all the life-support systems and transportation airlocks the miners had needed.
As always, the Tharparkar, as Hakim thought of it, was a natural barrier more formidable than endless fortifications, mine-fields, and interlocking fields of fire.
And then our memories will decay, like the heavier transuranium elements, and we will find ourselves divorced from other people and living in big houses with interlocking pavement stones, room deodorizers, and genuine ten-karat gold faucets.
To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.
Already Jan had gone off to the eternal realm of card houses and castles in Spain, where men believe in happiness, whereas the Home Guards and I -- for at this moment Oskar counted himself among the Home Guards -- stood amid brick walls, in stone corridors, beneath ceilings with plaster cornices, all so intricately interlocked with walls and partitions that the worst was to be feared for the day when, in response to one set of circumstances or another, all this patchwork we call architecture would lose its cohesion.