intersection
/ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/
intersection noun: the junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
Noun
intersection (plural intersections)
- The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
- Near-synonym: crossroads
- We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination...2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022
- Synonyms:
- crossroads
- Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
- Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...
- 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).
- The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
- The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.https://web.archive.org/web/20120214131704/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
- The pullback of a corner of monics.
intersection meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
intersection in Hindi
- junction of two or more paths, etc
- चौराहा caurāhā, दोराहा dorāhā, चौक cauk
intersection in Tamil
- கணிதத்தில், கோடுகள் வெட்டிக்கொள்ளும் இடம், பல சாலைகள், தெருக்கள் சந்திக்கும் இடம், சந்தி
intersection in Marathi
- intersection
- चौक ċauk
intersection in Urdu
- junction of two or more paths, etc
- چَوراہا caurāhā, دوراہا dorāhā, تَقاطُع taqātu', چَوک cauk
More languagesFewer languages
- intersection in Bengali
- ছেদ ched
- intersection in Telugu
- ఖండన
- intersection in Malayalam
- പരസ്പരച്ഛേദം, സംപാതം, കുറുകെ കടക്കൽ, ഉടാട്ടം
- intersection in Kannada
- ಇಂಟರ್ಸೆಕ್ಷನ್, ಇಂಟರ್ಸೆಕ್ಟೇಷನ್, ಇಂಟರ್ಸೆರ್ಕ್ಷನ್
- intersection in Punjabi
- ਇੰਟਰਸੈਕਸ਼ਨ, ਇੰਟਰਸੈੱਕਸ਼ਨ
- intersection in Gujarati
- ચોક cŏk
- intersection in Odia
- ଆନ୍ତଃଚ୍ଛେଦ, ପ୍ରତିଚ୍ଛେଦନ
- intersection in Nepali
- इन्टरसेक्सन, प्रतिच्छेदन, इन्टरसेक्शन
- intersection in Pashto
- څلور لارى calorlãray
- intersection in Tagalog
- bagtasan, pagbagtas, bagtas
- intersection in Arabic
- مُفْتَرَق muftaraq, تَقَاطُع taqāṭuʕ
- intersection in Malay
- persilangan
- intersection in Indonesian
- persimpangan
- intersection in Thai
- สี่แยก sìi-yɛ̂ɛk, ทางแยก taang-yɛ̂ɛk, ชุมทาง chum-taang
- intersection in Vietnamese
- ngã đường, ngã tư, ngã ba, giao lộ
- intersection in Myanmar
- လမ်းဆုံ lam:hcum
Examples of intersection in a sentence
- At the intersection, there are two roads going to the left. Take the hard left.
- At the first intersection turn left and walk down, then turn right.
- At the intersection with two roads going left, take the soft left.
Synonyms of intersection
Forms of intersection
| plural | intersections |
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Origin of intersection
From Middle French intersection and its etymon Latin intersectiō. By surface analysis, intersect + -ion.
Words formed from intersection
Questions about intersection
- What does intersection mean?
- Intersection means the junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
- What is intersection in Hindi?
- Intersection in Hindi is चौराहा (caurāhā), दोराहा (dorāhā), चौक (cauk). See Intersection meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is intersection?
- Intersection is a noun.
- How do you pronounce intersection?
- Intersection is pronounced /ˈɪntəɹˌsɛkʃən/.
- What is the plural of intersection?
- The plural of intersection is intersections.
Words near intersection in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: intersection (page history and authors); intersection (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); चौक (Marathi) (page history and authors); intersection (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); intersection (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); intersection (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); intersection (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ચોક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); intersection (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); intersection (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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