Literary notes about intersection (AI summary)
The term "intersection" is employed with remarkable versatility in literature. In narrative texts, it often denotes a physical convergence—a street corner or crossroads where lives meet or diverge, as seen when characters recall the intersection of Elm and Houston [1, 2] or meet unexpectedly at a corridor junction [3]. At the same time, authors use it as a metaphor for the confluence of ideas and forces, illustrating the meeting point of differing realms, whether in society [4, 5] or in the mind and body [6]. In scientific and mathematical discourses, "intersection" acquires a precise technical meaning, describing the point where curves, lines, or surfaces converge [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. This dual usage underscores the word’s power to capture both the tangible and the abstract, uniting disparate elements into a single moment of convergence.
- I proceeded to the intersection of Elm and Houston, and it was about 9:50 or 10 o'clock when I was on the corner there.
— from Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission - What time, to the best of your recollection, did you arrive at the intersection of Elm and Houston?
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission - Gaunt joined me at once from the military office, and at the intersection of the corridor, we came upon Blash waiting for us.
— from Armageddon—2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan - The point of intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - They had reached that irrevocable and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and all joy.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - Sensations are what is common to the mental and physical worlds; they may be defined as the intersection of mind and matter.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - Intersection and resection are used to locate points within the enemy's lines.
— from Military Instructors Manual by J. P. (James Perry) Cole - Two points of intersection between the equal shadows morning and evening supply an excellent meridian for a thirteen-year-old astronomer.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - It will be seen that at the intersection of lines there are nine stopping-places, and
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - 46 Problems relating to the intersection of surfaces.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - To construct the intersection of two oblique cones, and the tangents to that curve.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Planes perpendicular to each other.—The intersection of two planes perpendicular to a third plane, is perpendicular to this third plane.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - To determine the point of intersection of two right lines whose equations are known.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - To find the intersection of a right line and of a plane, their equations being known.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
