interleave

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to arrange items from different groups alternately or at regular intervals among one another

   The editor chose to interleave the two narrators' chapters throughout the novel.

2. 2
   verb

   in computing, to distribute consecutive data, memory locations, or operations across separate resources or streams

   The controller can interleave memory accesses across several banks to increase throughput.

3. 3
   verb

   to insert blank or printed leaves between the existing pages of a book

   The researcher asked the binder to interleave the catalog with blank pages for notes.

Formed from inter- ("between, among") + leave in the sense of placing leaves or pages. It first referred to inserting pages between a book's existing leaves, then broadened to alternating any items; computing adopted it for distributing data or operations among resources.

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