interdigitate
verbEtymology From inter- + digitate.
1
To fold or lock together, as when the fingers of one hand are laced between those of the other.
2
To become folded or locked together, like the fingers of a folded hand.
- Figure 1.4 shows a modern thyristor encapsulated in a presspack housing and Figure 1.5 illustrates a typical interdigitated gate geometry in a high-power thyristor; the black areas indicate silicon ( Si0₂ ) and the white areas the Al metallisation.1998, J. Arrillaga, High Voltage Direct Current Transmission, page 6:
3
Figuratively To intermingle; to present alternately items from one group and then another.
- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
- Derived terms
- interdigitation
- Related terms
- collate, finger joint