Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To become mixed or united by penetration.
- intransitive verb To penetrate reciprocally.
- intransitive verb To penetrate thoroughly; permeate or pervade.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To penetrate or pass into reciprocally; unite with by mutual penetration.
- To penetrate between or among (the component parts of a body or substance); pass into or within the different parts of (a body); penetrate in various directions or throughout.
- To penetrate mutually; become united by mutual penetration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.
- intransitive verb To penetrate each the other; to penetrate between bodies or their parts.
- intransitive verb (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
penetrate mutually or reciprocally - verb To
permeate orpervade
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb penetrate mutually or be interlocked
- verb spread or diffuse through
Etymologies
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Examples
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Similarly, McEwan has learned to diffuse and interpenetrate character flaws to an almost universal level -- it is difficult to think of a single character in Solar who is nice, who lacks a crucial flaw -- and that is just wonderful!
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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Similarly, McEwan has learned to diffuse and interpenetrate character flaws to an almost universal level -- it is difficult to think of a single character in Solar who is nice, who lacks a crucial flaw -- and that is just wonderful!
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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With the imaginary, "mind and material do not squarely meet and interpenetrate."
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As for the "epiphenomena" - at least the ones Frye postulates, since mythos, ethos and dianoia are Aristotelian terms, as far as I'm aware (and also somewhat more abstract and complex than their modern counterparts "plot", "character" and "idea") - Frye himself tack them on as names of categories containing the low-level features you probably have in mind and admits that they often interpenetrate.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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With the imaginary, "mind and material do not squarely meet and interpenetrate."
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Kate Elliott adds another sensible answer, which is that the religion, whatever it is, should be thoroughly worked out as a part of good world-building, and should interpenetrate with the other parts of the culture.
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With the imaginary, "mind and material do not squarely meet and interpenetrate."
June 2010 2010
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Commercial and noncommercial spaces interpenetrate.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Kate Elliott adds another sensible answer, which is that the religion, whatever it is, should be thoroughly worked out as a part of good world-building, and should interpenetrate with the other parts of the culture.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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With the imaginary, "mind and material do not squarely meet and interpenetrate."
Mysterious Potencies 2010
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