English-French translations for intersection

• intersection
  Depuis des temps immémoriaux, le Cachemire est un trait d'union et une intersection entre le Proche-Orient, l'Asie centrale et l'Asie du Sud. Since time immemorial, Kashmir has been a bridging point and intersection between the Near East, Central Asia and South Asia.
  Le système des préférences généralisées (SPG) communautaire se situe, en effet, à l'intersection de ces deux grandes politiques de l'Union. The generalised Community' s system of preferences (GSP) actually lies at the intersection between these two major policies of the Union.
• carrefour
  Elle ne possède même pas cent mètres de carrefours. It does not have even 100 metres of intersections.
  Un petit pays y est certainement très sensible, et plus encore s'il se situe à d' importants carrefours. Indeed, a small country is vulnerable in that respect, but a country which lies at major intersections is even more vulnerable to this.
  Je terminerai en citant l'exemple des carrefours ruraux mis en place dans de nombreuses régions, qui sont une courroie pour la transmission de cette information indispensable. I will end by giving an example of the rural intersections put in place in numerous regions, which are the cogs in the transmission of this essential information.
• croisée
• sortie

Definition of intersection

• The junction of two paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares
• The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect
• The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.[http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html]

Related words

• intersecting
• intersectionality
• intersectional
• nonintersecting
• intersectional point
• intersecting set
• intersection point
• intersecting line
• intersection of sets