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

A philosopher — Jacques Derrida, say, here seen crossing Houston Street a few years before his death — might wax eloquent on the dialectical interpenetration of presence and absence.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2016

Though, to be more specific, the fear that “Terminator Genisys” reflects is that of centralization, corporate control, and an unwarranted interpenetration of business and government.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 1, 2015

From the one side consciousness is explained as a juxtaposition of elements; from the other as an interpenetration of elements so complete that the parts can be neither isolated nor distinguished from the whole.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.