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Definition of Interdigitate
1. v. t. To interweave.
2. v. i. To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle.
Definition of Interdigitate
1. Verb. (transitive) To fold or lock together, as when the fingers of one hand are laced between those of the other. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To become folded or locked together, like the fingers of a folded hand. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To intermingle; to present alternately items from one group and then another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Interdigitate
1. [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interdigitate
Literary usage of Interdigitate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"It derives its name from the fact that its outermost portion presents innumerable
papilla-like projections, which interdigitate with corresponding downward ..."
2. Laboratory Directions in Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven, Peter Olaus Okkelberg (1919)
"The intermediate regions are characterized to some extent by intermediate
conditions, but at least frequently the environments interdigitate. ..."
3. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"Their distinguishing feature is their arrangement in symmetrical pairs, which
interdigitate and overlap where they meet. A similar arrangement is seen in ..."
4. Normal histology and microscopical anatomy by Jeremiah Sweetser Ferguson (1904)
"The imbricated cells of its cuticle interdigitate with the similar cells of the
cuticle of the root sheath in the deeper half of the follicle; ..."
5. Proceedings of the National School of Dental Technics by American Institute of Dental Teachers (1897)
"So say the extremists, hut it is a well known fact that in certain cases these
teeth interdigitate normally when they are in an advance position as compared ..."
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