imbrication
pronunciation
How to pronounce imbrication in British English:
UK [ɪmbrɪ'keɪʃn]
How to pronounce imbrication in American English:
US [ɪmbrɪ'keɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
Word Origin
- imbrication (n.)
- 1640s, from French imbrication, from Latin imbricare "to cover with tiles," from imbricem (nominative imbrex) "curved roof tile used to draw off rain," from imber (genitive imbris) "rain," from PIE *ombh-ro- "rain" (cognates: Sanskrit abhra "cloud, thunder-cloud, rainy weather," Greek ombros "rain"), from root *nebh- "moist, water" (see nebula).
Example
- 1. It may be that the unique imbrication of olfactory data with emotion is somehow entirely discrete on some dimensions from visual or auditory processes .