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
“The Planetary Omnibus” immerses the reader in a world where our apparent reality and low-rent, pop-culture fixtures that refused to go away interpenetrate each other to create a new status quo.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2014
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
Further complications arise when the lower walls of the mother zooid become thickened and interpenetrated with solenia, from which buds are developed, so that lobose, tufted, or branched colonies are formed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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
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
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
Monk-Life and Monk-Religion: A great heaven-high Unquestionability, encompassing, interpenetrating all human Duties.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
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