Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the doctrine of generation promulgated by Bonnet, namely, the aggregation of living germs one within the other, and their detachment to produce new existences.
- noun In anatomy, the fitting of one bone, or assemblage of bones, into another, as a box fits within its cover.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preëxisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another.
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Examples
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Couvertures en tulles en beton a glissement et a emboitement longitudinal (edition octobre 1982) -
Chapter 9 1992
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Tuiles en beton a glissement a emboitement longitudinal (E) - 11 p. (NF P 31 -311).
Chapter 9 1992
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There is little resembling the incapsulation (_emboitement_) that one sees in most American languages.
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
ruzuzu commented on the word emboitement
"2. In anatomy, the fitting of one bone, or assemblage of bones, into another, as a box fits within its cover."
- Century Dictionary
August 24, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word emboitement
Because most are too lazy to type emboîtement or to learn the name of that mark over the i.
September 15, 2011