Definition of "interlace" [in•ter•lace]

• To connect by or as if by lacing together; interweave. (verb-transitive)
• To intersperse; intermix: interlaced the testimony with half-truths. (verb-transitive)
• To intertwine: "As the earth thaws, numberless little streams are formed to overlap and interlace with one another” ( Joyce Carol Oates). (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The so-called interlace combing in all the examples I have seen to date clearly shows at least two or three scan lines forming the 'combs', not individual scan lines."
• "Could it be a bug in AutoGK that the video was mistakenly identified as interlace?"
• "The "interlace" loss occurs from bandpass filtering (before the transmitter matrix) prior to transmission or in device NTSC / PAL encoders."