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interdigitate

[ in-ter-dij-i-teyt ]

verb (used with or without object)

interdigitated, interdigitating.
  1. to interlock, as or like the fingers of both hands.


interdigitate

/ ˌɪԳəˈɪɪˌٱɪ /

verb

  1. intr to interlock like the fingers of clasped hands
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • t·徱i·ٲtDz noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of interdigitate1

First recorded in 1840–50; inter- + digitate
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Word History and Origins

Origin of interdigitate1

C19: from inter- + Latin digitus (see digit ) + -ate 1
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The researchers fabricated the new device with redesigned interdigitating electrodes that induce cell rotation and a microchannel for cell passage.

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It's so interesting too, how all of this interdigitates with culture in general, and with what the culture drives us for efficiency and cost cutting in the political parlance of the day.

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It is showing the extraordinary resilience of the natural world and the marvelous way in which everything interdigitates, just forms a perfect mesh.

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They are firmly joined by bony processes; the interdigitating nature of this articulation contrasts with its homologue in the adult, the point where the roughened corners of the forelobes and hind lobes meet.

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The ranges of the two species do not overlap in the strict sense but interdigitate in a parapatric type of distribution.

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