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Interlock vs Integrate - What's the difference?

interlock | integrate |

As verbs the difference between interlock and integrate

is that interlock is to fit together securely while integrate is to form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

As a noun interlock

is a safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.

interlock

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To fit together securely.
  • To interlace.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.
  • :The demonstrator couldn't figure out why the machine wouldn't work, until he remembered that there was an interlock so it wouldn't operate with the cover open.
  • integrate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

  • To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
  • To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
  • (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
  • To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
  • Anagrams

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