What does Interstate mean?

Definitions for Interstate
ˌɪn tərˈsteɪt; ˈɪn tərˌsteɪtin·ter·state

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. interstate, interstate highwayadjective

    one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States

  2. interstateadjective

    involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States

    "Interstate Highway Commission"; "interstate highways"; "Interstate Commerce Commission"; "interstate commerce"

GCIDE

  1. interstatenoun

    An interstate highway, part of the United States Interstate Highway system.

Wiktionary

  1. interstatenoun

    A freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System

  2. interstateadjective

    of, or relating to two or more states

  3. interstateadjective

    crossing states (usually provincial state, but also e.g. multinational sense).

    The truck driver drove interstate to unload.

Wikipedia

  1. interstate

    The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States. The system extends throughout the contiguous United States and has routes in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico. The U.S. federal government first funded roadways through the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, and began an effort to construct a national road grid with the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921. In 1926, the United States Numbered Highway System was established, creating the first national road numbering system for cross-country travel. The roads were still state-funded and maintained, however, and there was little in the way of national standards for road design. U.S. Highways could be anything from a two-lane country road to a major multi-lane freeway. After Dwight D. Eisenhower became president in 1953, his administration developed a proposal for an interstate highway system, eventually resulting in the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Unlike the earlier U.S. Highway System, the Interstates were designed to be an all-freeway system, with nationally unified standards for construction and signage. While some older freeways were adopted into the system, most of the routes were completely new construction, greatly expanding the freeway network in the U.S. Especially in densely populated urban areas, these new freeways were often controversial as their building necessitated the destruction of many older, well-established neighborhoods; as a result of the many freeway revolts during the 1960s and 1970s, several planned Interstates were abandoned or re-routed to avoid urban cores. Construction of the original Interstate Highway System was proclaimed complete in 1992, despite deviations from the original 1956 plan and several stretches that did not fully conform with federal standards. The cost of construction of the Interstate Highway System was approximately $114 billion (equivalent to $558 billion in 2021). The system has continued to expand and grow as additional federal funding has provided for new routes to be added, and the system will grow into the future. Though much of their construction was funded by the federal government, Interstate Highways are owned by the state in which they were built. All Interstates must meet specific standards, such as having controlled access, physical barriers or median strips between lanes of oncoming traffic, breakdown lanes, avoiding at-grade intersections, no traffic lights and complying with federal traffic sign specifications. Interstate Highways use a numbering scheme in which primary Interstates are assigned one- or two-digit numbers, and shorter routes which branch off of longer ones are assigned three-digit numbers where the last two digits match the parent route. The Interstate Highway System is partially financed through the Highway Trust Fund, which itself is funded by a federal fuel tax. Though federal legislation initially banned the collection of tolls, some Interstate routes are toll roads, either because they were grandfathered into the system or because subsequent legislation has allowed for tolling of Interstates in some cases. As of 2020, about one-quarter of all vehicle miles driven in the country used the Interstate Highway System, which had a total length of 48,756 miles (78,465 km).

ChatGPT

  1. interstate

    Interstate refers to anything that is related to, existing between, or involving two or more different states or territories. This could apply to roads, laws, commerce, activities, relationships, or systems. It is most commonly used to describe highways in the U.S that cross state borders.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Interstateadjective

    pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States; as, interstate commerce

Wikidata

  1. Interstate

    Interstate is a digital typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993–1999, and licensed by Font Bureau. The typeface is closely related to the FHWA Series fonts, a signage alphabet drawn for the United States Federal Highway Administration in 1949. Frere-Jones' Interstate typeface, while optimal for signage, has refinements making it suitable for text setting in print and on-screen, and gained popularity as such in the 1990s. Due to its wide spacing, it is best suited for display usage in print, but Frere-Jones later designed another signage typeface, Whitney, published by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, that bears a resemblance to its ancestor while being less flamboyant and more economical for general print usage, in body copy or headlines. The terminals of ascending and descending strokes are cut at an angle to the stroke, and on curved strokes, terminals are drawn at a 90° angle to the stroke, positioning them at an angle to the baseline. Counters are open, even in the bold and bold condensed weights, further contributing to legibility. Punctuation is based on a rectangular shape, while official FHWA punctuation is based on a circular shape.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Interstate

    in′tėr-stāt, adj. existing between different states or persons therein.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Interstate in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Interstate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Interstate in a Sentence

  1. James Gagliano:

    We are disappointed that they have decided to take this approach, the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 is the lifeblood of the industry, and we strongly oppose any effort to repeal it.

  2. Rod Sims:

    This is particularly critical for gas users in the southern states, who are likely to become increasingly reliant on gas from interstate or overseas.

  3. Enbridge Inc -LRB- ENB.TO -RRB-:

    Under the newly changed FERC tax policy, holding certain interstate pipelines in MLP structures is highly unfavorable to unitholders and is no longer advantageous.

  4. Jake Nelson:

    Our interstate infrastructure is crumbling. We can't afford to even fill potholes and repair bridges, which is why Vision Zero is so important because we have scarce resources and we need to invest wisely.

  5. Warren Eller:

    It's not just simply more people might get shot or might not get shot, it's whether you are going to get pulled over and wind up in jail if you mistakenly carried a greater than 10-round magazine into New Jersey from Pennsylvania, the lack of knowledge of all the intricacies of interstate commerce on these things is hugely important.

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