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Intersected

Intersect \In`ter*sect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intersected; p. pr. & vb. n. Intersecting.] [L. intersectus, p. p. of intersecare to intersect; inter + secare to cut. See Section.] To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts; as, any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center.

Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other.
--Cowper.

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vb. (en-past of: intersect)

Usage examples of "intersected".

The western parts of Africa are intersected by the branches of Mount Atlas, a name so idly celebrated by the fancy of poets.

A multitude of artificial canals, dug without much labor in a soft and yielding soil connected the rivers, and intersected the plain of Assyria.

But in the dreary waste of Arabia, a boundless level of sand is intersected by sharp and naked mountains.

Vector lines intersected their original jump coordinate thirty-seven thousand kilometres ahead.

Once its new orbital vector intersected Kirchol, the starship reconfigured itself for a jump.

A red circle intersected the central grid square and his neural nanonics triggered a five-hundred-shot fan pattern.

Their courses intersected, drive exhausts a dazzling asterisk, and they sped outwards on divergent vectors, electronic brains crashing in program overload confusion.

Where the domes intersected, gigantic conical megatowers soared up into the contused sky.

Eighty vac-train tunnels intersected in the bedrock underneath it, making it the most important transport nucleus on the continent.

Long, flat streamers of light from the towering windows intersected around her, giving her an almost saintly portrayal.

But it was the one very specific interference pattern they formed as they intersected which was the goal of the bombardment.

Had there been two different sets of conspirators whose plots intersected in wild confusion?

She hung in blackness, refusing her own sensory inputs, balanced on the point of Singularity where decomposing subspaces intersected, with no way forward and no way back.

The trace by the river soon widened out to a wide roadway, well surfaced and maintained, and intersected a similarly good road heading north.

From there it was only a short distance to the place where it intersected with Alameda.