imbrication
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or in correctional or reconstructive surgery.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A phenomenon occurring in many Bantu languages in which morphemes interweave in certain morphophonological conditions.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The use of relative positioning, often by varying amounts of indentation, to define hierarchical relationships between elements of code.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "SMAS flaps or SMASectomies are considered imbrications in this chapter. SMAS tightening is probably a more accurate description with 'open' SMAS techniques referring to imbrication and 'closed' SMAS techniques referring to plication."
- "The Archean basement beyond and beneath the northwest flanks of the turbidite basins constitutes the cratonic foreland against which northwest-directed tectonic imbrication is thought to have occurred."
- "The Kiyaka perfective, applicative, and causative suffixes display an unusual type of infixation known in the Bantu literature as “imbrication” (see e.g. the discussion of imbrication in Tiene in chapters 4 and 6)."
- "Only a subset of YAML is used: sequences are only expected to contain scalars and mappings are only expected to contain a scalar or a mapping, but with only one level of imbrication."
Etymology
From French imbrication, from Latin imbricātus, from imbricō, from imbrex. By surface analysis, imbricate + -ion.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: imbrication, imbricātus