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VERB (3)

1. provide (books) with blank leaves;

2. intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data;

3. intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Interleave \In`ter*leave"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interleaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Interleaving.] [Pref. inter- + leaf.] 1. To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: To insert something alternately between the parts of; as, to interleave transparencies with the corresponding pages. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

interleave v 1: provide (books) with blank leaves 2: intersperse the sectors on the concentric magnetic circular patterns written on a computer disk surface to guide the storing and recording of data 3: intersperse alternately, as of protective covers for book illustrations
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

sector interleave interleave interleaving sector interleaving sector map (Or sector map) The mapping from logical to physical sector numbers on a magnetic disk designed to optimise sequential reads and writes. Data is usually transferred to and from the disk in blocks or sectors where one sector lies within a continuous range of rotational angle of the disk. If logical sectors are assigned sequentially to physical sectors (0,1,2,...) then by the time one sector has been read and processed (e.g. writen to main memory) the start of the next logical sector will have passed the read/write head and will not be accessible until the disk's rotation brings it back under the head. Staggering the physical sectors (e.g. 0,3,6,1,4,7,2,5,8) aims to allow just enough time deal with one sector before the next is accessible. This obviously depends on the relative speed of the rotation of the disk, sector size, sectors per track and the speed of transfer of sectors to main memory.