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
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
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
The name given to this eccentric development is interpenetration.
From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)
