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interˈsecting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That intersects; usually with n. in pl., that intersect each other; crossing.
1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. Wks. 1839 I. 182 The two extreme points of the intersection are in both the intersecting planes. 1725W. Halfpenny Sound Building 16 The Intersecting Arches are Gothick ones. 1790W. Wrighte Grotesque Archit. 13 An arcade of intersecting semi-ellipses. 1878C. Stanford Symbols Christ ii. 37 A knowledge of the future in all its million million threads of intersecting influence. 1880Haughton Phys. Geog. iv. 168 The formation of the continent shaped out by its intersecting mountain chains. |