intertwingle

== English == === Etymology === Probably a blend of intertwine +‎ intermingle. The word has apparently been coined independently several times: It was used by the Indian author and translator Manmatha Nath Dutt (1855–1912) in an 1896 work: see the quotation. It appears to have been used comically by Montgomery Gordon Rice of Bradley Polytechnic Institute in an April 1901 performance of Esmeralda: see the quotation. It was used as a noun by the American-British author Henry James (1843–1916) as a nickname for a group of his Emmet female cousins who were painters; and also by the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) as a nickname for his 1900s genre paintings of his nieces, the Ormond sisters. Sargent was referring to the use of shawls as a motif, or the interchangeability of the models or their convoluted poses. (The American artist Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873–1961), one of Henry James’ “intertwingles”, was also a friend and model of Sargent’s.) The word was used in the urban planning context by Tracy Augur in the 1950s (see the 1954 quotation), and adopted by others including Dennis O’Harrow. Sense 2 (“of documents, information, etc.: to interconnect or interrelate in a complex way”) was developed from its use in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) by the American philosopher and sociologist Theodor Holm Nelson (born 1937): see the quotation. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɪntəˈtwɪŋɡl̩/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɪntəɹˈtwɪŋɡ(ə)l/, [-ɾəɹ-] Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl Hyphenation: in‧ter‧twing‧le === Verb === intertwingle (third-person singular simple present intertwingles, present participle intertwingling, simple past and past participle intertwingled) (intransitive, informal, rare) To confuse or entangle together; to enmesh, to muddle. (computing, information science) Of documents, information, etc.: to interconnect or interrelate in a complex way. ==== Related terms ==== intertwingled (adjective) intertwingling (noun) intertwingularity ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === intertwingularity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia