interlock

A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.

Noun

  1. A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.
    • The demonstrator couldn't figure out why the machine wouldn't work, until he remembered that there was an interlock so it wouldn't operate with the cover open.
    • Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der. Proto-Germanic *luką Proto-West Germanic *lok Old English loc Middle English lok English lock English interlock From inter- + lock.

Forms

interlocks

Verb

  1. To fit or clasp together securely.
  2. To interlace.

Forms

interlocks interlocking interlocked

Derived

interlockable interlocker microinterlocking noninterlocking uninterlocked