What does imbrication mean in crosswords?

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

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imbrication

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11 lettersPart of speech nounSorted abciiimnortStarts with IEnds with N0 clues

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

From French imbrication, from Latin imbricātus, from imbricō, from imbrex. By surface analysis, imbricate + -ion.

“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.”

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