INTERCONNECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interconnect mean? 

• INTERCONNECT (verb)
  The verb INTERCONNECT has 2 senses:

1. be interwoven or interconnected

2. cause to be interconnected or interwoven

  Familiarity information: INTERCONNECT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERCONNECT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they interconnect    ... he / she / it interconnects   
Past simple: interconnected   
Past participle: interconnected   
-ing form: interconnecting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be interwoven or interconnected

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

complect; interconnect; interlink

Context example:

The bones are interconnected via the muscle

Hypernyms (to "interconnect" is one way to...):

connect; join; link; link up; unite (be or become joined or united or linked)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interconnect"):

intercommunicate (be interconnected, afford passage)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

interconnection (a state of being connected reciprocally)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be interconnected or interwoven

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

interconnect; interlink

Hypernyms (to "interconnect" is one way to...):

connect; link; link up; tie (connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

interconnection ((computer science) the act of interconnecting (wires or computers or theories etc.))

 Context examples 

An interconnected system of things or people.

(Network, NCI Thesaurus)

B12 metabolism is interconnected with that of folic acid.

(Cyanocobalamin, NCI Thesaurus)

They are specialized EPITHELIAL CELLS that are organized into interconnected plates called lobules.

(Murine Hepatocytes, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

When we sleep, our organism goes through different phases of sleep, however the brain remains interconnected during non-REM sleep, which was thought not to happen.

(Brain Is Still 'Connected' during Non-REM Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The retina and central nervous system are so interconnected that changes in the brain could be reflected in cells in the retina.

(Predicting Alzheimer's Disease May Be Possible Using Eye Exam, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A microelectronic device that incorporates many interconnected transistors and components.

(Integrated Circuit Chip Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A hammer-shaped bone, part of three interconnected small bones located in the middle ear.

(Malleus, NCI Thesaurus)

Is an anatomical structure that consists of all members of one or more organ subclass; these members are interconnected by anatomical structures or body substances.

(Murine Organ System, NCI Thesaurus)

An interconnected computer network whose combined resources may be harnessed to work on difficult problems.

(Grid, NCI Thesaurus)

Broad plate of dense myelinated fibers that reciprocally interconnect regions of the cortex in all lobes with corresponding regions of the opposite hemisphere.

(Corpus Callosum, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)