Intersection

Intersection has various meanings in different contexts:

  • In mathematics and geometry
    • Intersection (set theory), the set of elements common to some collection of sets
    • Intersection matrix of the dimensionally extended nine-intersection model (DE-9IM)
    • Line-line intersection
    • Line-plane intersection
    • Line–sphere intersection
    • Intersection of a polyhedron with a line
    • Line segment intersection
    • Intersection theory
  • Intersection (road), a place where two roads meet (line-line intersection)
  • Intersection (aviation), a virtual navigational fix
  • Intersection (land navigation), a method of obtaining a fix on an unknown position from two mapped points
  • Intersectionality, a sociological theory about categorizations (e.g. ethnicity, gender, and religion) and the way those categorizations interact
  • Constructive solid geometry, Boolean Intersection is one of the ways of combining 2D/3D shapes

Intersection may also refer to:

  • Intersection (1994 film), a 1994 remake of the French film Les Choses de la vie
  • Intersection (2012 film), an upcoming French thriller film
  • Intersection (album), 2012 album by Nanci Griffith
  • An element in the reality TV series The Amazing Race
  • Intersections (1985–2005), a 2006 music CD box set released by Bruce Hornsby
  • Intersection, 53rd World Science Fiction Convention, held in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1995
  • Intersections (Dave House album), 2009
  • Intersections (Mekong Delta album), 2012
  • Intersections (arts festival)
  • Intersections, Virginia

Intersect redirects here. It may refer to:

  • Intersect (SQL), a set operator in SQL
  • The Intersect, an intelligence database that is the central plot device in the TV series Chuck
  • Intersect (video game)

Famous quotes containing the word intersection:

    “You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a wind-blown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.”
    —Bill Bryson (b. 1951)

    “If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.”
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)