English Explanatory Dictionary

interpenetration

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

interpenetration interpenetrations

Etymology

From inter- + penetration.

Related words

self-intersection
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