interleaved; interleaving

transitive verb

: to arrange in or as if in alternate layers

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Although commercially unsuccessful, Stretch inspired technologies used in inventions such as instruction pipelining and memory interleaving. IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2022 This interleaving of the numbers on the faces enables the intransitivity. Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1856, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of interleave was in 1856

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“Interleave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interleave. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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