interpenetrative

adjective

Mutually penetrative (overlapping each other in space)

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveinterpenetrative (comparative more interpenetrative, superlative most interpenetrative)

comparative more interpenetrative · superlative most interpenetrative

  1. mathematicsMutually penetrative (overlapping each other in space)
  2. Merging together into a continuous whole.
    1 more example

    The Building of the Sangha The Buddha later gave another sermon to his small, select audience, this time on the five so-called skandhas – form, feeling, conception, dispositions and consciousness – the interpenetrative ways in which we perceive the material world and the world presents itself to us (a theme to which I shall return later).

    2005, Jo Durden Smith, The Essence of Buddhism

Origin

Translations

Italian incompenetrabile
  • incompenetrabilemutually penetrative
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Chicago

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