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‖ emboîtement|ɑ̃bwatmɑ̃|
[Fr.; f. emboîter to enclose in a box, f. en- in + boîte box.]
1. Anat. The fitting of a bone into another.
1854Owen Skel. & Teeth (1855) 32 This kind of ‘emboitement’ of the occipital in the parietal vertebra.
2. Biol. Used by Buffon to describe the hypothesis of the generation of living things, according to which successive generations are produced by the successive development of living germs which lie one within the other (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
3. The closing up of a number of men in order to secure the front rank from injury.
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