Lexic.us

Definition of Interlock

1. Verb. Coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively.

2. Noun. A device that prevents an automotive engine from starting. "Car theives know how to bypass the ignition interlock"

3. Verb. Hold in a locking position. "He locked his hands around her neck"

4. Noun. The act of interlocking or meshing. "An interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check"

5. Verb. Become engaged or intermeshed with one another. "They were locked in embrace"

Definition of Interlock

1. v. i. To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.

2. v. t. To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening.

Definition of Interlock

1. Verb. To fit together securely. ¹

2. Verb. To interlace. ¹

3. Noun. A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Interlock

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interlock

interlobitis interlobular interlobular arteries interlobular arteries of kidney interlobular arteries of liver interlobular duct interlobular ductules interlobular emphysema interlobular pleurisy interlobular septum

interlobular veins of kidney interlobular veins of liver interlocal interlocal additivity interlocation interlock (current term) interlocked interlocking interlocking gyri interlocking tower

interlocking towers interlocks interlocution interlocutional interlocutions interlocutor interlocutories interlocutors interlocutory interlocutory injunction

Literary usage of Interlock

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"of 18 acres of bind is claimed by the said JP Boggs to lap or interlock on tbe said tract of 94 acres." The deed from Smith and Wells to Hoff Is exhibited, ..."

2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1889)
"There was no improvement, so far as the proof shows, in the two-acre interlock, or the twen- ty-six-and-one-half-acre interlock on the ..."

3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"5 switch is fully closed, the short contact of its interlock completes the circuit through the pick-up coil 4-12-13 as follows: ß+ —f-pick-up coil ..."

4. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1913)
"through the central opening of the first casting (£), so that when in position the two castings interlock, fitting into each other like two links in a chain ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... long digitate processes, which interlock nua those of the adjacent cells. The posterior epithelium of the cornea, abo called the endothelium of the ..."

6. Railroads, Rates and Regulation by William Zebina Ripley (1913)
"Classifications and distance tariffs interlock, 347. — General conclusions, 351. IMAGINE the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Chicago mail-order catalogue and a ..."

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