interspect

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verb

To examine or evaluate the relationships between.

UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

verbinterspect (third-person singular simple present interspects, present participle interspecting, simple past and past participle interspected)

present singular third person interspects · participle present interspecting · participle past interspected · past interspected

  1. To examine or evaluate the relationships between.

    Also, we interspect certain admonitions and cautions concerning such fallacies of things, and errors in invention, as we meet with in our way.

    1859, Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England
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    Studies conducted for women in urban poor have indicated that they interspect the weightage to work & home in a different way ie.^([sic]) house is the first priority.

    1995, Women, Housing, and Human Settlements, page 367

    Class II: The second class of attack is called replay attack. In it an interspected biometric data is submitted to the feature extractor by passing the sensor.

    2011, Archana Mantri, Suman Nandi Saraswati Kendra, Gaurav Kumar, High Performance Architecture and Grid Computing, →ISBN
  2. To appear at intervals within

    In 1670 this plain, was by order of Colbert planted with trees, forming several walks interspected with grass plats.

    1850 -, What I saw in Paris during Easter 1849
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    This chasm runs a great length, and is not only always green, but interspected with cataracts of falling water, the delightful murmurings of which add to the solemnity and solitude of the place.

    1757, A compendium of a journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, pages 125–126

    ...while the commissioned officers wore their rank badges, of the same kind and size as they wear them nowadays on their shoulderflaps (one to four short golden stripes for the second lieutenant, the lieutenant, the captain and the commandant respectively, three golden stripes with two silver ones interspected between them for the lieutenant-colonel, five golden stripes for a full colonel, two stars equidistant from the cuff rim for a brigadier, ...

    1975, Marcel Roubiçek, Echo of the Bugle

Origin

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