The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interpenetrate \In`ter*pen"e*trate\, v. t. To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.
It interpenetrates my granite mass.
--Shelley.
Interpenetrate \In`ter*pen"e*trate\, v. i. To penetrate each the other; to penetrate between bodies or their parts.
Interpenetrating molding (Arch.), in late Gothic architecture, a decoration by means of moldings which seem to pass through solid uprights, transoms, or other members; often, two sets of architectural members penetrating one another, in appearance, as if both had been plastic when they were put together.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To penetrate mutually or reciprocally. 2 To permeate or pervade.
WordNet
Usage examples of "interpenetrate".
A sudden, startling white-light image showed living, breathing Siamese twins, impossibly transected to expose raw pink-and-gray muscles working side-by-side with shape-memory alloys and piezoelectric actuators, flesher and gleisner anatomies interpenetrating.
The warp and weft of the spell wove together into a vast glittering net that interpenetrated aether and Earth.
In this way we come to see the human organism as a realm of interpenetrating spheres of distinctive physiological activities.
It was getting more suggestive than interpenetrating, and he thought he might talk the matter over better with Olive.
Milky Way, although a complete ring, is broad and diffuse on one side through one-half its course -- that half alone containing nebulæ -- and relatively narrow and well defined on the opposite side, the author of this singular speculation avers that these facts can best be explained by supposing that the invisible universe consists of two interpenetrating parts, one of which is a chaos of indefinite extent, strewn with stars and nebulous dust, and the other a long, broad but comparatively thin cluster of stars, including the sun as one of its central members.
Perhaps a dozen of them interpenetrated and perished, but the others survived, and even with their systems impaired by transit, they belched a hurricane of missiles and beams into Chamhandar's bleeding fortresses.
There must be a couple of conveyers interpenetrating every second of every minute of every day.
Several contrary potentialities interpenetrated at their common source, but of this source each of these kinds of activity preserves or rather accentuates only one tendency.
I am vast by human standards: a cubic kilometer of silaceous cell matrices intricately and delicately interpenetrating.
Its units’ emergences must be carefully phased lest they interpenetrate in n-space, so its commander couldn’t just run without abandoning those still to come.
Its units' emergences must be carefully phased lest they interpenetrate in n-space, so its commander couldn't just run without abandoning those still to come.
They could have arisen apparently independently, but connected by the creative patterning of the Formative Mind which interpenetrates all living forms.
If Totality is from another dimension and totally interpenetrates this one, why is it limited only to this planet?
It bounces off, disperses through, and interpenetrates our peculiar flesh, but cannot transfer fatal force to us.
Just as the outer light reaches an inner boundary at our retina, so does the inner light meet with an outer boundary, set by the optical density of the medium spread out before the eye, Outer and inner light interpenetrate each other along the whole tract between these two boundaries, but normally we are not conscious of this process.