Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Reciprocally penetrating; mutually penetrative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Penetrating among or between other substances; penetrating each the other; mutually penetrative.
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- adjective mathematics, physics Mutually
penetrative (overlapping each other in space)
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Examples
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* Entirely interpenetrative of our universe; as Uncle Chu would say, "The Outside is here, Mister Burton."
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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To say it one last time, the distinctive properties of all capitalisms are the drive for capital, the guidance and constraints of a market system, and the blessings—admittedly, often mixed—of a bifurcation of power into two interpenetrative but still independent sectors.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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To say it one last time, the distinctive properties of all capitalisms are the drive for capital, the guidance and constraints of a market system, and the blessings—admittedly, often mixed—of a bifurcation of power into two interpenetrative but still independent sectors.
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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Such a mutually interpenetrative consciousness there was between the father and the old physician.
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Man in his temporal relations, illustrated by pagan antiquity, and man in his spiritual relations, illustrated by biblical antiquity: these are the two regions, at first apparently distinct, afterward found to be interpenetrative, which the critical and inquisitive genius of the Renaissance opened for investigation.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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The characters are definite in outline, but, taken together in the conduct of a single plot, they seem to stand apart, like figures in a _tableau vivant_; nor do they act and react each upon the other in the play of interpenetrative passions.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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The characters are definite in outline, but, taken together in the conduct of a single plot, they seem to stand apart, like figures in a _tableau vivant_; nor do they act and react each upon the other in the play of interpenetrative passions.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Man in his temporal relations, illustrated by Pagan antiquity, and man in his spiritual relations, illustrated by Biblical antiquity; these are the two regions, at first apparently distinct, afterwards found to be interpenetrative, which the critical and inquisitive genius of the Renaissance opened for investigation.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866
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A body thus responsive to and interpenetrative of light, which is the visible life, could have no sentence of death in it.
Miracles of Our Lord George MacDonald 1864
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Such a mutually interpenetrative consciousness there was between the father and the old physician.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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