imbrication

Plural: imbrications

Noun

• covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
• A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish.
• Overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or in correctional or reconstructive surgery.
• A sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.
• A phenomenon occurring in many Bantu languages in which morphemes interweave in certain morphophonological conditions.
• The use of relative positioning, often by varying amounts of indentation, to define hierarchical relationships between elements of code.

Synonyms

lapping, overlapping, nesting

Related Words

imbricate, imbricated