interpenetration
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The work draws on Yoruba ideas of cyclical time and the interpenetration of the living, the dead and the not-yet-born.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022
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
But this interpenetration is going on also in younger troupes, companies where you’d expect the founding choreographer to be jealous of his stage time.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019
These shades of feeling, and their interpenetration, are conveyed with extraordinary delicacy and care.
From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2011
Crystals with plane faces are usually twinned, there being an interpenetration of two rhombohedra with the vertical axes parallel.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various