interlock

Maerl beds may closely resemble corals but they are in fact thousands of pieces of free-living calcified seaweed that can interlock to create a carpet brimming with life.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Gentle vibrations encouraged the particles to interlock and strengthen the material, while stronger vibrations caused the network to unravel.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

Also like MBS and CDS, new financial assets have begun to interlock in odd, hard-to-understand ways with traditional financial products.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

The spacers prevent the LVP from moving when you start to tap the short edge with the hammer to get the second piece to interlock with the first piece.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

The rovers are macie to interlock so one can tow the other.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Park’s directorial vernacular, which pairs brutal subject matter with black comedy, interlocks neatly with Nguyen’s satirical style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

The subfloor needs to be in the same plane so the LVP interlocks and stays locked when you walk on it.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

What makes evaluating Apple’s potential overreach so complicated is that every criticism you can levy at the company interlocks.

From The Verge ● Jun. 21, 2019

Ignition interlocks for first-time offenders is a step out of the legislative dark ages for the commonwealth’s DUI laws.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2017

There are four different safety interlocks that prevent the regulator from letting the Hab's oxygen content get too low.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

"Ube really is, I would say, very interlocked with the Filipino identity," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The school alarm would pierce the air and teachers would instruct us to slide from our chairs, crouch under our desks facing the floor, and place our hands, fingers interlocked, over our necks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

There were no fixed guards preventing access to the blades from the underside and there were not any interlocked guards which would stop the rotating blades.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024

Before police cleared the area around Hamilton Hall on April 30, 30 or so students interlocked arms outside the building in a human barricade to protect the protesters inside.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2024

I stressed to the assembled press the need for mutual communication and support between the Africans and Afro- Americans whose straggles were interlocked.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

"Company" is a complex low-budget gothic drama that features several interlocking stories.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Each forms an interlocking piece in his still-developing musical puzzle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Also on Heritage Crafts' red list is dry stone walling - an ancient method of building structures from interlocking stones without using any mortar.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

In the worm's jaws, sharper changes in strain across tiny regions appear to increase the interlocking of defects within the atomic structure, producing the characteristic size effect.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

Though it was created in defiance of nature's musical laws, the new, interlocking, standardised system came with huge benefits, not least making all twelve key-families compatible.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall