Interdigitate

Quick meaning: Interdigitate is a verb meaning (transitive) To fold or lock together, as when the fingers of one hand are laced between those of the other.

Meaning

(transitive) To fold or lock together, as when the fingers of one hand are laced between those of the other.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become folded or locked together, like the fingers of a folded hand.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To intermingle; to present alternately items from one group and then another.

Example Sentences

Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

Figure 1.4 shows a modern thyristor encapsulated in a presspack housing and Figure 1.5 illustrates a typical interdigitated gate geometry in a high-power thyristor; the black areas indicate silicon ( Si0₂ ) and the white areas the Al metallisation.

Word Forms

• interdigitates
• interdigitating
• interdigitated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pectinate, interfold, interfinger, interlock, lock, intermesh.

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