interleave

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interleave

verb interleaves · interleaving · interleaved · interleaf

  1. transitive To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book. 1754, Samuel Johnson, Letter to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Warton, 28 November, 1754, cited in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, edited by Augustine Birrell, New York: Dodge, 1896, Volume 1, p. 225, Let a Servitor transcribe the quotations, and interleave them with references to save time. This will s
  2. transitive To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group. I had the demon’s own time with my armor, and this delayed me a little. It is troublesome to get into, and there is so much detail. First you wrap a layer or two of blanket around your body, […] then you put on your sleeves and shirt of chain mail— […] then you put on your shoes—flat-boats roofed ov
  3. transitive To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.

noun interleaves · interleaf

  1. An interleaved or interspersed arrangement. the interleave of sectors on a floppy disk

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verb to insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book

Españolinterfoliar
中文插入空白頁 /插入空白页 chārù kòngbái yè
Italianointerfogliare
Românăinterfolia
Русскийчередовать čeredovatʹ, перемежаться peremežatʹsja

verb to intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing

中文間插 /间插, 穿插 chuānchā
Portuguêsintercalar
Françaisimbriquer, entrelacer, intercaler
Ελληνικάδιεμπλέκω diempléko
Românăintercala
Русскийпроставля́ть prostavlyát

verb computing: to allocate things such as successive segments of memory to different tasks

中文交錯分配 /交错分配 jiāocuò fēnpèi, 交叉存取 jiāochā cúnqǔ
Русскийраспределя́ть raspredeljátʹ

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@misc{interleave_2026,
  title = {interleave},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/interleave},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}