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

These shades of feeling, and their interpenetration, are conveyed with extraordinary delicacy and care.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2011

But this mutual interpenetration of the religious and moral ideas is still quite rudimentary.

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert