Definition of "interleave" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To insert (pages, which are normally blank) between the pages of a book.

   • 1754, Samuel Johnson, Letter to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Warton, 28 November, 1754, cited in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, edited by Augustine Birrell, New York: Dodge, 1896, Volume 1, p. 225, Let a Servitor transcribe the quotations, and interleave them with references to save time. This will shorten the work and lessen the fatigue.
   • 1794, Robert Burns, Letter to Mr. James Johnson, Dumfries, 1794, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), The Letters of Robert Burns, Selected and Arranged, with an Introduction, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 305, In the meantime, at your leisure, give a copy of the Museum to my worthy friend, Mr. Peter Hill, bookseller, to bind for me, interleaved with blank leaves, exactly as he did the Laird of Glenriddel’s, that I may insert every anecdote I can learn, together with my own criticisms and remarks on the songs.

2. (transitive) To intersperse (something) at regular intervals between the parts of a thing or between items in a group.

3. (computing, transitive) To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.

noun

1. An interleaved or interspersed arrangement.

   • the interleave of sectors on a floppy disk