interlace

plural interlaces

1. countableuncountableartsA decorative element found especially in early medieval art

   Hiberno-Saxon interlace patterns

2. countableuncountablebusinessA technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal primarily on CRT devices without consuming extra bandwidth.

present singular third person interlaces · participle present interlacing · participle past interlaced · past interlaced

1. transitiveTo cross one with another.

   to interlace wires

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   The opportunity was also taken to remove one of the few examples of gauntleted tracks in this country, interlacing the down fast and slow lines over the bridge.

   1960 November, “Talking of Trains: Selby swing bridge”, in Trains Illustrated, page 647

   Synonyms: interthread, intertwine, interweave, betwine, braid, entwist, entwine, interthread

2. To mingle; to blend.
3. intransitiveTo cross one another as if woven together; to intertwine; to blend intricately.

   interlacing branches

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   Megan Sixsmith sits on a low bench in the Buenas Yerbas Museum of Modern Art and stares back at a giant portrait of an old lady’s ursine face, rendered in interlacing grey and black lines on a canvas otherwise blank. The only figurative in a room of Pollocks, de Koonings and Mirós, the portrait quietly startles.

   2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 428