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interpenetration|ˌɪntəpɛnɪˈtreɪʃən|
[inter- 2 a.]
The action of interpenetrating or fact of being interpenetrated.
1. The action of penetrating between or among; the passing through and through; deep or thorough penetration.
a1822Shelley Ess. & Lett., Def. Poetry i. (Camelot) 35 It is..the interpenetration of a diviner nature through our own. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. ii. 58 There has certainly been nothing like an intimate interpenetration of ancient Irish law by Christian principle. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life i. ix. 184 The interpenetration of the sea into any part of the great continents.
2. Mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other.
1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 150 That union and interpenetration of the universal and the particular, which must ever pervade all works of decided genius and true science. 1857Kingsley Misc., Gt. Cities II. 339 A complete interpenetration of city and of country. 1877Le Conte Elem. Geol. xvi. (1879) 158 Regions or zones in latitude..shade insensibly into one another by interpenetration.
3. Arch. The intersection of two forms; spec. an independent continuation of mouldings or other members past their intersection, so that the identity of a member is preserved after it has partly coincided with another or has been altogether swallowed up in it.
1840Willis in Gwilt Archit. (1876) 933 In many Flamboyant examples, small knobs and projections may be observed, and on a superficial view might pass for mere unmeaning ornaments, but will be found explicable upon this system of interpenetration. 1848T. Rickman Archit. App. p. lviii, It has also the interpenetration of mouldings. 1879Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 53 The groined or intersecting vault formed by the interpenetration of two demi-cylinders. |