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interpenetrate

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  1. penetrate mutually or be interlocked
    The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot
  2. spread or diffuse through
    An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration
    His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks
    music penetrated the entire building

How To Use interpenetrate In A Sentence

  • Two face-centred cubic lattices can also interpenetrate in such a way that every point belonging to the one lattice is at the centre of gravity of a tetrahedron whose vertices are points belonging to the other lattice. Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 - Presentation Speech
  • The architecture is such that this higher level is clearly interpenetrated with the lower level and casts its power down to where I stand making me feel stilled and centred right where I am.
  • He inhabits a world where historical activity is surrounded by supernatural forces, where the numinous constantly interpenetrates the dull sublunary world of common sense.
  • This bio-plasmic body that surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body called the ‘etheric’ body, is responsible for maintaining vitality, good health and well being at all levels.
  • Instead, its darkness interpenetrates the figure; their contest is fought out through brushy, blurred and sharp lines, and through the quiet waves of energy rippling along the velvet, planed-down blackness.
  • And the idea that we are surrounded and interpenetrated by a sort of ghostly jelly appealed to the spiritualists of the day, who concocted the notion that we each have an etheric body as well as a material one.
  • In his writings and media appearances, Brooks insightfully deploys scientific research to demonstrate how "deeply interpenetrated" we humans are. Michael Sigman: Brooks Pits 'Connection' vs. 'Adventure,' But Why Not Both?
  • As for the "epiphenomena" - at least the ones Frye postulates, since mythos, ethos and dianoia are Aristotelian terms, as far as I'm aware (and also somewhat more abstract and complex than their modern counterparts "plot", "character" and "idea") - Frye himself tack them on as names of categories containing the low-level features you probably have in mind and admits that they often interpenetrate. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
  • As for the "epiphenomena" - at least the ones Frye postulates, since mythos, ethos and dianoia are Aristotelian terms, as far as I'm aware (and also somewhat more abstract and complex than their modern counterparts "plot", "character" and "idea") - Frye himself tack them on as names of categories containing the low-level features you probably have in mind and admits that they often interpenetrate. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
  • They interpenetrate of course and the fact that I've been reading science fiction for thirty-five or more years means that I probably have a somewhat more louche approach to these remarkable possibilities than many people do.
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