intersecant

English

Etymology

From Latin intersecans, present participle of intersecare. See intersect.

Adjective

intersecant (not comparable)

1. (rare) Crossing, intersecting; (figuratively) clashing, conflicting.

   intersecant roads

   • 1833 August 24, Silvester, “For the Acadian Recorder: Trees”, in Acadian Recorder, volume 34, number 21, Halifax, N.S., page 2:

     To plant the sides of the intersecant roads of the Halifax Peninsula with Shade Trees, would not occasion heavy toil or expence to proprietors; and they would be compensated by the comfort they would experience, while their property would be beautified.

   • 1860 December 22, J. W., “For the Telegraph: Weather—Suggestive of the Revolution—Variation of the Scene—A Cause of Sadness— […]”, in The Macon Daily Telegraph, number 278, Macon, Ga.: Joseph Clisby, page 1:

     At the North end is a plateau, answering to the head of a cross, the shaft of which shoots directly towards the South. On one end of this plateau, stands the Governor's house, and on the other, the Washington Monument, while between the intersecant angles formed by the shaft with the head of the cross, stands the Capitol in simple architectural grandeur.

   • 1918 September 28, “Little Pedlington: Communal Contentiousness”, in The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser, number 9609, Nowra, N.S.W., page 3:

     From their positions geographically, with interests in common, and only ten miles of roadway between them, the two towns [Berry and Nowra] should in all their aims and aspirations be not intersecant, but have mutual dealings in most, if not all, local enterprises, and maintain a connection in municipal and social effort that would make for steady advancement.

   • 1955 May, P. Du Val, “Algebraic geometry: Marchionna, Ermanno. Serie lineari complete su una curva gobba dotata di punti multipli ed intersezione totale di due superficie […]”, in Mathematical Reviews, volume 16, number 5, Lancaster, Pa.: American Mathematical Society, page 509:

     A sufficient condition for primals of order l, having with each branch of I'* at O* i intersections coinciding in O*, to trace residually a complete series on I'* is […]. I'* is normal except when one of the intersecant primals is a monoid and the rest are all cones of vertex O*.

Further reading

• “intersecant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “intersecant, adj. & n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• anticenters, anticentres

Latin

Verb

intersecant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of intersecō