interpenetrate
Americanverb
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to penetrate (something) thoroughly; pervade
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to penetrate each other or one another mutually
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Specifically, this problem was unsolved for smooth Möbius strips that are “embedded” instead of “immersed,” meaning they “don't interpenetrate themselves,” or self-intersect, says Richard Evan Schwartz, a mathematician at Brown University.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2023
As the past and the present interpenetrate in Clark’s performance, you may feel, as I did, the themes of “Kimberly Akimbo” recombining to achieve an even sharper focus.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
The experience was hypnotic, with lifelong consequences, for it showed me how the worlds of fact and fiction can interpenetrate.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2013
All you need to bear in mind is that rhetoric is a fuzzy art: these divisions overlap and interpenetrate.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Finally, we identified where and how competing discourses interpenetrated.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2023
Biomorphism was also central to Noguchi’s work, and he gives it an anguished turn, creating wounded landscapes, pitted and slashed, and standing abstract figures that are punctured and interpenetrated by dull, blade-like forms.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2015
Imagination and the life of Salem had interpenetrated.
From Time Magazine Archive
The possibility that all things known and unknown are interpenetrated.
From Washington Post
The physical plane, consisting of the earth and its atmosphere, is surrounded and interpenetrated by the astral plane, or world, which is an enormously larger globe of exceedingly tenuous matter.
From Elementary Theosophy by L. W. (Louis William) Rogers
With his interpenetrating spaces, Wright “destroyed the box,” as one critic put it, allowing his rooms to flow freely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Post-deposition treatments such as thermal annealing may have a role in creating and stabilizing the nanoscale interpenetrating network of materials.
From Nature ● Aug. 15, 2012
After three years at the Royal College of Art, she began following her pointillist god Seuiat and the interpenetrating planes of Italian futurism.
From Time Magazine Archive
St. Helena with a dozen Napoleons on it, huge solipsisms crashing into one another, interpenetrating, great weather balloons of malignant ego drifting in the subtropical breezes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its form is peculiar; on plan, that of two circles interpenetrating.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by C. H. B. (Charles Henry Bourne) Quennell
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