dovetails

(transitive) (figuratively) To combine or fit (things) together well.

(intransitive, figuratively) Of several things: to combine or fit together well.

(intransitive) To adapt to something; to fit in.

(transitive) (chiefly woodworking) To unite (components) with a dovetail (noun sense 2.1) or similar joint.

(transitive) (figuratively) (computing) To interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so that they can be run more or less simultaneously.

(transitive) (figuratively) (music) To seamlessly move a melody from one instrument to another.

In full dovetail joint: a type of joint where adjoining components are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a dove's tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes.

A tenon cut into a wedge shape resembling a dove's tail so that it interlocks with a mortise having a corresponding shape in a dovetail joint.

(chiefly woodworking, often attributively)

(heraldry) A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1).

The tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the shape of a dove's tail.