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
Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
But things improve as the two stories, or at least the two pairs of actors, eventually start to interpenetrate.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2017
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
Literature and life, are, indeed, so absolutely interpenetrated and so interdependent that they can almost invariably be contemplated as cause and effect, each reacting upon the other in determining sequences.
From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting
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
The real machine age, which he says has been with us 1,000 years, Mumford divides into three overlapping, interpenetrating phases: eotechnic, paleotechnic, neotechnic.
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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