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Imbrication

British pronunciation/ɪmbɹɪkˈeɪʃən/
American pronunciation/ɪmbɹɪkˈeɪʃən/
Imbrication
[NOUN]
1

covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)

synonyms : lapping
overlapping
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2

a phonological process in which adjacent or alternating segments in a word share a common feature, resulting in the assimilation or co-occurrence of certain articulatory or acoustic characteristics

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Examples
1Physics becomes the science that is not attentive to the human imbrication, that has a very primitive picture of causality.
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