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interfinger

interfinger verb: to interpenetrate in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.

Verb

interfinger (third-person singular simple present interfingers, present participle interfingering, simple past and past participle interfingered)

  1. To interpenetrate in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.
    • The lagoon deposits overlie and interfinger with beach sands in SAV3 and SAV4, which overlie an early Holocene estuary deposit in SAV4.2001 May 18, Kevin O. Pope et al., “Origin and Environmental Setting of Ancient Agriculture in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica”, in Science, volume 292, number 5520, →DOI, pages 1370–1373

Adjective

interfinger (not comparable)

  1. (molecular biology) Between two zinc fingers.
    • Strong-intensity interfinger NOE cross-peaks observed in the complex, but not for the free protein (26 ), indicate that binding is also promoted by the formation of extensive intraprotein interactions (Fig. 4 B).1998 January 16, Roberto N. De Guzman et al., “Structure of the HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein Bound to the SL3 {Psi}-RNA Recognition Element”, in Science, volume 279, number 5349, →DOI, pages 384–388

Forms of interfinger

third-person singular presentinterfingers
present participleinterfingering
past participleinterfingered
pastinterfingered

Origin of interfinger

From inter- + finger.

Questions about interfinger

What does interfinger mean?
Interfinger means to interpenetrate in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.
What part of speech is interfinger?
Interfinger can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of interfinger?
The past tense of interfinger is interfingered.

Words near interfinger in the dictionary

  1. interfile
  2. interfiled
  3. interfiles
  4. interfiling
  5. interfilter
  6. interfinger
  7. interfingered
  8. interfingering
  9. interfingerings
  10. interfingers
  11. interfirm

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