interposer

English

Etymology

From interpose +‎ -er.

Noun

interposer (plural interposers)

1. One who interposes.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Since I have your good leave to go away,
     I will make haste: but, till I come again,
     No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,
     No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.

   • c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lawes of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 52, column 1:

     But if now / You ſhould (as cruell fathers do) proclame / Your right, and Tyrant like uſurp the glory / Of my peculiar honours, not deriv'd / From ſucceſſary, but purchas'd with my bloud, / Then I muſt ſtand firſt Champion for my ſelfe, / Againſt all interpoſers.

2. (electronics) An electrical interface between one connection or socket and another, used to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute it.
   • 1984, Robotics Technology Abstracts - Volume 3, page 280:

     The drillable centre-line determining device disclosed in this patent takes the form of an interposer which has on its underside a projecting location pin perpendicular to its upper surface which acts as a planarisation platform.

   • 2016, Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Vobulapuram Ramesh Kumar, Manoj Kumar Majumder, Arsalan Alam, Through Silicon Vias: Materials, Models, Design, and Performance, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     As the name suggests, an interposer is placed in between the packaging substrate and dies to provide electrical interface routing. The objective of an interposer is to electrically reroute a terminal to different dies or to extend a connection to broader areas via wider pitch.

Further reading

• interposer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• presentoir

French

Etymology

From inter- +‎ poser, or an amalgamation between Latin interposuī and pauso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.ze/

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Verb

interposer

1. (transitive) to interpose

Conjugation

Conjugation of interposer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	interposer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	interposant /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		interposé /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	interpose /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz/	interposes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz/	interpose /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz/	interposons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zɔ̃/	interposez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.ze/	interposent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz/
	imperfect	interposais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zɛ/	interposais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zɛ/	interposait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zɛ/	interposions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zjɔ̃/	interposiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zje/	interposaient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zɛ/
	past historic2	interposai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.ze/	interposas /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.za/	interposa /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.za/	interposâmes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zam/	interposâtes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zat/	interposèrent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zɛʁ/
	future	interposerai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁe/	interposeras /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁa/	interposera /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁa/	interposerons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁɔ̃/	interposerez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁe/	interposeront /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	interposerais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁɛ/	interposerais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁɛ/	interposerait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁɛ/	interposerions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	interposeriez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zə.ʁje/	interposeraient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	interpose /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz/	interposes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz/	interpose /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz/	interposions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zjɔ̃/	interposiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zje/	interposent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz/
	imperfect2	interposasse /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zas/	interposasses /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zas/	interposât /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.za/	interposassions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.za.sjɔ̃/	interposassiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.za.sje/	interposassent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	interpose /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.poz/	—	interposons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.zɔ̃/	interposez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.po.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “interposer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.