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interpenetration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interpenetration \In`ter*pen`e*tra"tion\, n.
The act or process of penetrating between or within other
substances; mutual penetration; also, the result of a process
of interpenetration.
--Milman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1809, from inter- + penetration.
Wiktionary
n. The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration.
WordNet
n. the action of penetrating between or among
mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other [syn: permeation]
Wikipedia
Interpenetration may refer to:
- Interpenetration (Buddhism), a concept of Buddhist philosophy proposed in the Avatamsaka Sutra
- Interpenetration (Christianity), a term in Christian theology (aka Perichoresis or Circuminsession) that refers to the mutual inter-penetration and indwelling within the threefold nature of the Trinity, God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
- Interpenetration, in computer 3D modelling collision detection, where two objects collide and become stuck
Usage examples of "interpenetration".
Complexity thus emerges from the interpenetration of processes of differentiation and integration.
Organizational goals for the Councils of the Future thus become clear: dispersal, decentralization, interpenetration with the community, ad-hocratic administration, a break-up of the rigid system of scheduling and grouping.
Any losses we take from interpenetrations will probably be less than those we'd sustain if we didn't get our first wave through the warp point and into that system as quickly as possible.
Sometimes it was as if he were walking on the remains of organic machines—hybrid beings, half-animal, arisen from the union of the living and the nonliving, of reason and unreason—and sometimes it was as if he were bringing his iridium boots down on weirdly spreading gems, precious and impure, partially clouded due to interpenetrations and metamorphoses.
If we don’t have enough men, and enough robots, and enough computers to eliminate some of these interpenetrations, we might as well throw it in and quit.
Then the two forces interpenetrated at an unthinkable relative velocity, and that instant of interpenetration was marked by a brief but searingly intense exchange of energy weapon fire in which a hundred and twenty gunboats died.
They transited in massed formations, ignoring their interpenetration losses with cybernetic fatalism, and rushed on, past the capital ships of the first waves, past even the fighters and gunboats those capital ships had launched.