| 单词 | penetration of dimensions |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenetration of dimensions c. More fully penetration of dimensions [after post-classical Latin penetratio dimensionum (14th cent.); compare Middle French penetracion de dimensions (c1377)] . In former scientific thought: the supposed or hypothesized occupation of the same space by two bodies at the same time. Cf. impenetrability n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > occupying the same space coincidence1626 penetration1646 penetrability1777 1646 A. Ross New Planet No Planet viii. 90 The ship doth not carry the aire before it, but divides the aire whilst it moves, so that the aire gives place, as the water also doth to the ship, that there may not be penetration of dimensions. 1662 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mech. ii. iii. 46 I see not how the Examiners Condensation can be perform'd without penetration of dimensions. A thing that Philosophers in all Ages have looked upon as by no means to be admitted in Nature. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. ii. 78 Suppose two bodies containing no void within their circumference, to approach each other, and to unite in such a manner that the body, which results from their union, is no more extended than either of them; 'tis this we must mean when we talk of penetration. 1830 H. Kater & D. Lardner Treat. Mechanics i. 5 There are many instances of apparent penetration; but in all these, the parts of the body which seem to be penetrated are displaced. 1997 S. Clark Thinking with Demons (1999) xv. 237 The kind of natural force that the desire for survival in the human ‘archeus’ could imprint on the human body, allowing it (by the ‘penetration of dimensions’) to transmit and void safely otherwise lethal solid objects accidentally swallowed. < as lemmas |
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