MEANING
1. An act or place of crossing, or a point where distinct elements meet.
2. The set of all members that belong to each of the sets being compared.
Use it for
locating where routes or lines meet; identifying a meeting point between fields; describing connected domains without merging them entirelyNames a meeting point or shared set, allowing overlap to be stated without claiming complete equivalence. Academic functions: Comparison / Contrast, Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- the intersection of two roads
- at the intersection of fields
- an intersection between disciplines
On the page
The research question lies at the intersection of economic history and institutional analysis.
The map distinguishes an intersection from two routes that pass nearby without crossing.
The intersection contains only cases that satisfy both selection criteria.
The union includes every case in either group, whereas the intersection includes only the shared cases.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- intersection
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable: intersection, intersections. Intersection of/between + lines, sets or fields. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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