Past tense of intersect
regular verb
The past tense of intersect is intersected. The past participle is also intersected.
Forms of intersect
| Base form (V1) | intersect /ɪntəˈsɛkt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | intersected |
| Past participle (V3) | intersected |
| Present participle | intersecting |
| Third person singular | intersects |
Intersected in a sentence
- It has a circumference of many miles, intersected at intervals by gates guarded day and night by armed soldiers.1991, Chris Mullin, The Year of the Fire Monkey (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252. From the entry Forbidden City
- Rev. — A device of doubtful interpretation intersected by two crosses in saltire and surmounted by a third.1920, Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, page 240. From the entry climant
- The three spheres – political, commercial, spiritual – intersected, and at the very centre of their conjunction was, and is, the Meccan temenos.2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 123. From the entry temenos
- The saturnine line going from the rascetta through the hand to Saturn's mount, and there intersected by certain little lines, argues melancholy., New York, 2001, p.209. From the entry rascetta
- It is concluded that the severe storms formed in close proximity to a "triple point" (TP), at which a synoptic cold front and "insolation-enhanced" warm front intersected.2006, The International Journal of Meteorology. From the entry triple point
Meaning of intersect
- verb To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
- verb Of two sets, to have at least one element in common.
- adjective Between sects; intersectarian.
Questions about the past tense of intersect
- What is the past tense of intersect?
- The past tense of intersect is intersected.
- What is the past participle of intersect?
- The past participle of intersect is intersected.
- Is intersect a regular or irregular verb?
- Intersect is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: intersect (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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