interlock

To unite or join closely as by hooking or dovetailing.

To connect together (parts of a mechanism, for example) so that the individual parts affect each other in motion or operation.

To become united or joined closely, as by hooking or dovetailing.

A mechanical device that prevents a component from functioning when another component is functioning or situated in a particular way.

A stretchy fabric knitted with interlocking stitches by alternating sets of needles on a circular knitting machine.

To be locked together; mutually engage, clasp, or cling: embrace: as, the interlocking boughs of a wood.

To lock or clasp together; lock or hitch one in another: as, cattle sometimes interlock their horns.

In geography, to be involved together: specifically applied to the headwaters of two different drainage systems which dovetail together yet flow in opposite courses.

To cross-lock or lock in combination; lock so that unlocking can be effected only under certain conditions, or after certain other motions have previously been made.

To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.