interlock
联锁,互锁,连锁,互相锁定
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Definitions
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- : to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- : to interweave or interlace, one with another: The branches of the trees interlock to form a natural archway.
- : Railroads. to operate together in a prearranged order.
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- : to lock one with another.
- : to fit together to ensure coordinated action.
- : Railroads. to arrange to effect a predetermined sequence of movement.
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- : the fact or condition of interlocking or of being interlocked.
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Examples
In newborns, the larynx is positioned higher in the throat, and interlocks with the soft palate to create a separation between the food pathway in the mouth and the breathing pathway in the nose.
The abstract yet seemingly organic forms dovetail, interlock and sometimes appear to tie themselves into knots.
The legs adjust to balance on uneven terrain, and the components interlock.
They in turn, as they grow, interlock their boughs, and repeat in a season or two the same process of mutual suffocation.
Both are navigable streams, and their head waters interlock with Grand river, or Washtenong, which flows into lake Michigan.
Some of its head waters interlock with those of Tippecanoe, a prominent tributary of the Wabash.
Different tariffs may interlock with complicated cross references.
On the edges of the barbs are set the barbules, which interlock with those of adjacent barbs, and thus give strength to the vane.