interseção

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

intersecção (Portugal)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin intersectiōnem.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁ.seˈsɐ̃w̃/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɾ.seˈsɐ̃w̃/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁ.seˈsɐ̃w̃/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɻ.seˈsɐ̃w̃/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨɾ.sɛˈsɐ̃w̃/

Homophones: intercessão, interceção
Hyphenation: in‧ter‧se‧ção

Noun

interseção f (plural interseções) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling, European Portuguese spelling)

intersection (junction of two or more paths, etc)
(geometry) intersection (point or points common to two objects)
(set theory) intersection (set containing every element common to multiple sets)

Further reading

“interseção”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

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