interwrap

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ wrap

Verb

interwrap (third-person singular simple present interwraps, present participle interwrapping, simple past and past participle interwrapped)

1. To intertwine; to wrap together.
   • 1870 February, Richard A. Proctor, “Strange Discoveries Respecting the Auroro”, in Fraser's Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 237:

     Then from end to end there pass a succession of undulations, the folds of the curtain interwrapping and forming a series of graceful curves.

   • 1892, Arthur Tappan Pierson, From the Pulpit to the Palm-branch, page 201:

     It is illustrated from the vegetable realm, in the vine and the branches that interwrap their fibres.

   • 1985, John H. Wilson, Genetic recombination, page 440:

     This problem, however, can be solved by a nicking-closing enzyme, which recognizes the underwound character of the DNA in the region where strand contact has been made and introduces a transient nick that allows the two strands to fully interwrap.

   • 2005, Bruce Braun, Noel Castree, Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millenium^[sic], page 160:

     At these spectacular spaces, discourses pertaining to the selling of the new were repeatedly interwrapped with discourses pertaining to progress, to the (re) construction of national identity, to national and racial superiority, to a just-around-the-corner paradise where the now better would get even better interwrapped with discourses which, regadless of specific content, were meant to paper over social conflict and discontent, to make some things visible and others invisible, to inculcate particular ways fof seeing and not seeing, to facilitate social control.

Noun

interwrap (plural interwraps)

1. The act or condition of interwrapping.
   • 1970, Proceedings of Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research:

     The experiments performed were concerned with the effects of "interwrap eddy currents", or eddy currents circulating in more than a single turn.

   • 1995, Remn-Min Guo, James J. M. Too, Recent advances in heat transfer and micro-structure modelling for metal processing, page 227:

     Yuen (1986) further showed that the thermal effect from the interwrap thermal resistance, acting as a thermal barrier, is equivalent to an extra wrap of transfer bar in between the real physical wraps.

Adjective

interwrap (comparative more interwrap, superlative most interwrap)

1. Between wraps.
   • 1974, Year Book - Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, page 485:

     As far as the mandrel designer is concerned, this condition is hypothetical as it is necessary to design the mandrel to avoid interwrap slippage occurring since this would cause scratch marks on the strip.

   • 1983, Digests of the Intermag Conference, page 54:

     However, the high resistivity of ambrphous ribbons could make the interwrap flux flow negligible and therefore the introduction of a coating will not reduce the power loss of the toroids.