interlacementn.
/ɪntəˈleɪsmənt/ 1. The action of interlacing or condition of being interlaced; alternate crossing of threads, lines, or branches; also concrete, an interlaced arrangement or structure.
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the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [noun]
interlacing1532
twisting1552
wrapping1553
wreathing1553
interweaving1578
interlacement1603
contexture1649
intertexture1649
entwinementa1670
pleach1670
entwining1674
implexion1678
intertwisting1753
intertwine1817
intertwining1832
interramificationa1839
intertwinement1840
inweavement1842
interweavement1843
intertwist1870
twists and turns1884
interlace1904
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 310 The wheelings, the windings, and enterlacements of the celestiall bodies.
1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 421 Whence there results an interlacement resembling mat-work.
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 324 Formed..by the interlacement or anastomosis of their minutest branches.
1881 W. G. Palgrave Phra-Bat in Macmillan's Mag. XLV. 33 The dense interlacement of the bamboo thicket.
2. Complicated or intricate intermingling.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing > complicated or intricate
interlacing1532
intexture1607
interlacement1872
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxv. 202 There might be such an interlacement of poor Peter's former and latter intentions.
1891 Spectator 4 Apr. Below Cape de Verde..the interlacement of nationalities is exceedingly complicated.
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