interpenetration

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English

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Etymology

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From inter- +‎ penetration.

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Noun

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interpenetration (countable and uncountable, plural interpenetrations)

  1. The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration.
  2. The situation of two or more bodies overlapping in three-dimensional space, with part of the bodies lying within each other.

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