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
It works both ways, too; art and life interpenetrate each other.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2014
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
This nip and sparkle in the air interpenetrated all these fixed and heavy things, these laborious structures, these rigid forms, dissolving them into flowing, ever-changing patterns of fluid loveliness.
From The Promise of Air by Algernon Blackwood
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
In this way Italy’s entire mercantile marine became one of the numerous levers in the hands of the interpenetrating German.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
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