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What does intersect mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
  2. (mathematics) Of two sets, to have at least one element in common.
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Far uptown, near Columbia University, is the small triangle of Straus Park, where West End Avenue and Broadway intersect at 106th Street.
The meridians intersect and pile up to create a co-ordinate singularity at the Poles, but nothing odd happens on the Earth's real surface.
This misshapenness causes rays of light to bend too much as they enter the eye and therefore intersect short of reaching the retina.
The two valences of withheld history and sexual repression intersect in the confession scene.
Mark the point that these two lines intersect with a piece of tape or a round dot.
Passages tend to run parallel to the strata because there are very few joints and they rarely intersect more than one bed.

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