English-Portuguese translations for intersection

• interseção
• cruzamento
• encruzilhada
  Desde tempos imemoriais que o Caxemira tem sido uma ponte e uma encruzilhada entre o Médio Oriente, a Ásia Central e a Ásia Meridional. Since time immemorial, Kashmir has been a bridging point and intersection between the Near East, Central Asia and South Asia.
• intersecção
  O Sistema de Preferências Generalizadas (SPG) comunitário situa­se, com efeito, na intersecção destas duas grandes políticas da União. The generalised Community' s system of preferences (GSP) actually lies at the intersection between these two major policies of the Union.
  Esta região, situada na intersecção entre Leste e Oeste, apresenta um carácter especial no domínio da política de segurança.This area, the point of intersection between East and West, has its own special security policy character.
  Devido a esta complexidade, a questão romanichel encontra-se claramente na intersecção de problemas sociais, étnicos e/ou de minorias. Because of its complexity, the Roma issue is clearly at the intersection of social, ethnic and/or minority problems.

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