imbrication
noun as in strong fondness
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Example:The shingles on the roof have an overlapping pattern known as imbrication.
Definition:To extend over something else; to cover in part the surface of something else; especially, the circumstance of covering both inside and outside edges of a plane or more than one plane.
From overlap
Example:The bricks were laid in a pattern that resembled a form of imbrication at the medieval fort.
Definition:To cover partially or fully.
From overlay
Example:The geologists examined the imbrication formed by the interlayered sedimentary rocks.
Definition:To lay or arrange one thing over another so as to overlap.
From interleave
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