interlocking

Linked, locked, or fitted closely together.

Adjective

  1. Linked, locked, or fitted closely together.
    • All societies have three key interlocking elements: Religion, economics, and politics.

Forms

more interlocking most interlocking

Noun

  1. An arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through a set of intersecting tracks, such as junctions or crossings.
    • There was still no attempt to arrange interlocking between points and signals; that came later. In 1856, John Saxby carried out the principle involved in interlocking—the prevention of signals and points being in...
    • In addition to the usual interlocking between conflicting signal and point levers achieved by electric locks, track circuits, when occupied, hold signals governing entry to the relevant line at danger; [...] The up main...

Forms

interlockings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of interlock

Derived

interlocking tower