intersect
verb
[ ɪntəˈsɛkt ]
• divide (something) by passing or lying across it.
• "the area is intersected only by minor roads"
Similar:
bisect,
divide,
halve,
cut in two,
cut in half,
cut across,
cut through,
cross,
traverse,
span,
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin intersect- ‘cut, intersected’, from the verb intersecare, from inter- ‘between’ + secare ‘to cut’.
