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

Oh, did I say that many of these boxes are designed to interlock one on top of another as a system?

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

We had—or rather Gretchen had—found a way to break down the communication barrier and interlock with another species.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

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

Japanese Brazilian Yutaka Toyota interlocks arcs of shiny metal whose curved surfaces serve as sorts of funhouse mirrors.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022

The pizza will also be served in a round pizza box, which is industrially compostable and interlocks with other boxes for stability.

From The Verge ● Oct. 22, 2019

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

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

"Then I interlocked arms with him so I knew he wouldn't go anywhere, I waved to my dad and started heading out."

From BBC ● May 3, 2025

On “September 5,” the jigsaw Benesch found herself interlocked with was the nuts-and-bolts of an earlier era’s broadcast reporting, complete with vintage equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 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 was to discover that I was living in a rare moment when a personality becomes so interlocked with the era that it can’t be spoken of in different sentences.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

And the show ends, sensationally, with 1952’s four main cut-outs from his Blue Nudes series, in which variations on a seated female figure are created out of overlapping, interlocking color.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Around 95 million years ago, the Spinosaurus -- a massive beast with a blade-shaped head crest and interlocking teeth -- roamed the African continent.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

I stared up at the ceiling: gleaming white lines intersecting and weaving together into a twenty-four-sided star, which cascaded outward into interlocking diamonds as they followed the curvature of the inner dome.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram