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
There was a pneuma, too, that interpenetrated the universe around us and gave it those qualities of life that it was felt to possess.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
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
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
In the 1950s, Rickey made a series of sculptures called Little Machines of Unconceived Use, whose metal surfaces traveled in interpenetrating orbits on pivots within pivots within pivots.
From Time Magazine Archive
A crystal consists of a finite number of interpenetrating regular point-systems, which all possess like and like-directed coincidence movements.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
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