interpenetration

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The blocks’ zone of interpenetration lies beneath the Cascade Range, where intense pressures produce volcanic peaks like St. Helens, Baker and Rainier.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022

Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-detect techniques of elision and interpenetration — a world of transference, where beginnings and endings merge.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2017

We could be talking about the interpenetration of jazz and soul music, and George would mention that the bassist Milt Hinton played on “Mr. Lee,” a late-fifties hit by the Bobbettes.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2014

A more elaborate interpenetration of the historical and the personal comes in Act II.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2011

Informants disagreed on the extent of this interpenetration.

From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Murphy, Robert F.