interpenetration
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The blocks’ zone of interpenetration lies beneath the Cascade Range, where intense pressures produce volcanic peaks like St. Helens, Baker and Rainier.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-detect techniques of elision and interpenetration — a world of transference, where beginnings and endings merge.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2017
We could be talking about the interpenetration of jazz and soul music, and George would mention that the bassist Milt Hinton played on “Mr. Lee,” a late-fifties hit by the Bobbettes.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2014
A more elaborate interpenetration of the historical and the personal comes in Act II.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2011
The interpenetration of spiritual and corporeal elements in a complete personality, the transfusion of intellectual and emotional faculties throughout a physical organism exactly suited to their adequate expression, marks Greek religion and Greek art.
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by John Addington Symonds
