Definition for Intersection:

• The act of dividing by cutting across; place of crossing; the point or line in which two lines or two surfaces cut each other.

Synonyms for Intersection:

• n.

  •
  • central reservation,
  • camber,
  • bend,
  • bicycle lane,
  • carpool lane,
  • bike lane,
  • chicane.
  •act (noun)
  • intersection.
  •angle (noun)
  • turnings,
  • flexure,
  • flection,
  • Obliquities,
  • flexures,
  • VS,
  • obliquity.
  •a place of convergence (noun)
  • crossroad, crossroads.
  •carrefour (noun)
  • carrefour.
  •cognition (noun)
  • point of intersection,
  • intersection point.
  •convergence (noun)
  • convergence.
  •corner (noun)
  • cloverleafs.
  •crossing (noun)
  • cross walks,
  • ex change,
  • under-passes,
  • cross-walk,
  • grade crossings,
  • under passes,
  • cross walk,
  • cross-walks,
  • ex changes,
  • gridirons,
  • cross way,
  • over-pass,
  • over passes,
  • under-pass,
  • over-passes,
  • decussations.
  •crossroad (noun)
  • byroads,
  • Cross-road,
  • cross-roads,
  • byroad,
  • By-road.
  •crossroads (noun)
  • stop,
  • circle.
  •cut (noun)
  • dis section,
  • dis sections,
  • dis-sections,
  • dis-section.
  •focus (noun)
  • essence,
  • spirit,
  • gathering,
  • plenum,
  • bottleneck,
  • polestar,
  • hub,
  • rendezvous,
  • forum,
  • focus,
  • nucleus,
  • lodestar,
  • magnet,
  • heart,
  • soul,
  • axle,
  • asymptote,
  • core,
  • rally,
  • funnel,
  • epitome,
  • marrow,
  • lure,
  • kernel,
  • meat,
  • center,
  • crux.
  •overlap (noun)
  • overlap.
  •product (noun)
  • product.
  •traffic circle (noun)
  • four-way stop.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • block.
  •
  • corner.

Paraphrases for Intersection:

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    junction.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    junction, aggregation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    overlap, interrelation, interrelationship, combination, correlation, relationship, cross-cutting, commonality, link, conjunction, mixture.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    crossroads.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    interchange, corner, confluence, Concurrency, intercept, cross-contamination, interface, convergence, interrelatedness, interaction, crossroads, cross-checking, juncture, fork, crossover, cross-fertilization, converge, concurrence, interconnectedness, passing, approximation, inter-relationship, interplay, overlapping, cross-section, interlinkage.

Intersection Sentence Examples:

• The rocks were the tops of precipices, but the point of their intersection was cut out, and a glacier began at the gap.

• One of these, the Red Moon, faced the row of waterfront houses, standing at the intersection of a street which struck inland to the pulsing heart of Limehouse.

Hypernym for Intersection:

• n.

  • cognition
    vertex, metacentre, Metacenter.
  • shape
    origin.

Hyponym for Intersection:

• n.

  • act
    connection, joining, connexion.
  • cognition
    point.
  • shape
    set.