interpenetrationn.
/ˌɪntəpɛnɪˈtreɪʃən/ The action of interpenetrating or fact of being interpenetrated.
1. The action of penetrating between or among; the passing through and through; deep or thorough penetration.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > penetration > deep or thorough
interpenetrationa1822
impenetration1861
a1822 P. B. Shelley Def. Poetry in Ess. & Lett. (1840) I. 49 It is..the interpenetration of a diviner nature through our own.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ii. 58 There has certainly been nothing like an intimate interpenetration of ancient Irish law by Christian principle.
1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life i. ix. 184 The interpenetration of the sea into any part of the great continents.
2. Mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing > interpenetration or interflowing
interworking1641
interpenetration1809
interfluence1817
interfusion1817
interflowing1844
interflow1865
interpermeation1926
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 150 That union and interpenetration of the universal and the particular, which must ever pervade all works of decided genius and true science.
1857 C. Kingsley Great Cities in Misc. (1860) II. 339 A complete interpenetration of city and of country.
1877 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (1879) xvi. 158 Regions or zones in latitude..shade insensibly into one another by interpenetration.
3. Architecture. The intersection of two forms; spec. an independent continuation of mouldings or other members past their intersection, so that the identity of a member is preserved after it has partly coincided with another or has been altogether swallowed up in it.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > intersection or angle of work
splay1507
reprise1535
interpenetration1840
mullion-seat1888
1840 R. Willis in J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. (1876) iii. iii. 933 In many Flamboyant examples, small knobs and projections may be observed, and on a superficial view might pass for mere unmeaning ornaments, but will be found explicable upon this system of interpenetration.
1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) App. p. lviii It has also the interpenetration of mouldings.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 53 The groined or intersecting vault formed by the interpenetration of two demi-cylinders.
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