, the cutting of one line, or plane, by another; or the point or line in which two lines or two planes cut each other.——The mutual intersection of two planes is a right line. The centre of a circle, or conic section, &c, is in the intersection of two diameters; and the central point of a quadrangle is the Intersection of two diagonals.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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