HyperDic: imbrication

English > 1 sense of the word imbrication:
NOUNartifactimbrication, overlapping, lappingcovering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
English > imbrication: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
Meaningcovering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles).
Synonymsoverlapping, lapping
BroadercoveringAn artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)
Spanishimbricación
Catalanimbricació
Verbsimbricateoverlap
imbricateplace so as to overlap

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