INTERLACING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interlacing mean? 

• INTERLACING (adjective)
  The adjective INTERLACING has 1 sense:

1. linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing

  Familiarity information: INTERLACING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERLACING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing

Synonyms:

interlacing; interlinking; interlocking; interwoven

Similar:

complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)

 Context examples 

At the end of fifteen minutes, the carriage swung in through a stone gateway and on between a double row of arched and interlacing walnut trees.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A solid composed of a porous, interlacing, absorbent, usually shape retaining material that contains active and/or inert ingredient(s).

(Medicated Sponge Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of elongated, spindle-shaped neoplastic glial cells that form storiform patterns or interlacing fascicular arrangements.

(Pituicytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A well-circumscribed benign smooth muscle neoplasm characterized by the presence of spindle cells with cigar-shaped nuclei, interlacing fascicles, and a whorled pattern.

(Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital mesoblastic nephroma characterized by the presence of interlacing fascicles of fibroblastic cells, low mitotic activity, and collagen formation.

(Classic Congenital Mesoblastic Nephroma, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic variant of classic leiomyoma characterized by a dense cellular infiltrate composed of spindle or round cells with scant cytoplasm and a less obvious interlacing fascicle pattern.

(Cellular Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was standing with his arms folded, over against the wall, looking at the spikes on the top, with a sentimental expression, as if they were the interlacing boughs of trees that had shaded him in his youth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)