Usually means: Point where two lines meet.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word intersection:

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  1. intersection: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. intersection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intersection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intersection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intersection: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intersection, intersection: Wordnik
  7. intersection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intersection: Wiktionary
  9. intersection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intersection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intersection: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intersection: Dictionary.com
  13. intersection: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. intersection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Intersection (Euclidean geometry), Intersection (aeronautics), Intersection (album), Intersection (aviation), Intersection (company), Intersection (disambiguation), Intersection (geometry), Intersection (group), Intersection (mathematics), Intersection (road), Intersection (sculpture), Intersection (set theory), Intersection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Intersection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. intersection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. intersection: Rhymezone
  19. Intersection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. intersection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. intersection: Free Dictionary
  22. intersection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. intersection: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. intersection: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. intersection: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. intersection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. intersection: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Intersection: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. intersection: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. intersection, intersection: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intersection: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. intersection: Chapters in the Sky

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
noun:  Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
noun:  (geometry) 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).
noun:  (set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
noun:  (sports) 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
noun:  (category theory) The pullback of a corner of monics.

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