intersectionality
His home life and sporting life rarely intersect.
We can see the way race, class and gender intersected to shape her life’s possibilities.
The book explores how political culture and popular music intersected during the 1960s.
The health of women in rural India is the complex outcome of many intersecting social, economic and demographic factors.

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intersect | American Dictionary

intersect
verb
us/ˌɪn·tərˈsekt/
[ I/T ]
to meet and go through or across:
[ T ]Weaver Street intersects Palmer Avenue at the next corner.
geometry
(of a line or surface) To intersect is to cross at a point or set of points.

intersect | Business English

intersect
verb[ I ]
uk /ˌɪntəˈsekt/us
if two things intersect, they come together and have an effect on each other:
intersect with sthWe need to pinpoint the place where maximum achievable conservation intersects with the highest potential financial return.

Examples of intersect

intersect
Curiously, they have not intersected in terms of commissioning venues, implying the existence of a one-through-at-a-time dynamic.
However, social class intersected with ability, age, and gender, shaping events in peer-led literature groups.
In the figure the nodes at which partitionings have been intersected are drawn with thicker lines.
Finding the whole set of optimal values on each text, then intersecting all these sets, would be excessively long.
Entering the space under the bridge, one becomes aware of a turning eddy of sound in the midst of intersecting streams of traffic.
Of course, one could envision work intersecting age, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, community of practice, setting, and a variety of other local ethnographically determined factors.
Secondary forest patches were intersected by forestry access roads and some derelict timber-yarding areas.
The politics of purchase area farmers intersected with national politics in important ways that promoted both land sales and squatting.
Each ruling consists of pairwise skew lines, and every line of one ruling intersects all the lines of the other ruling of a regulus.
Thicknesses estimated from structural dip of the units where intersected by boreholes or at outcrop.
A first point of mention is that two intersecting cells were phonologically impossible.
The singularity loci are three pairs of intersecting straight lines respectively.
The interest in hygiene intersected with a maternalist discourse that inculcated the values of domesticity and celebrated the virtues of motherhood.
An equivalent process is represented by intersecting right bisecting lines of two sides of the projected triangle.
Transects were intersected with these distance zones, resulting in 180 sample areas (0.36 + 0.27 ha).
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