imbrication

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This imbrication confers upon those material objects peculiar social properties that those objects would not necessarily possess if they were not suspended within this very specific relation.

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  1. The state of being imbricate; an overlapping of the edges (real or simulated), like that of tiles or shingles. And let us consider that all is covered and guarded with a well-made tegument, beset with bristles, adorned with neat imbrications, and many other fineries. Derham, Physico-Theology, viii. 6.
  2. Masonry laid in ornamental designs, in stone of various colors, brick, terra-cotta, or a combination of these materials.
  3. A hollow resembling that of a gutter-tile.

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  • This imbrication confers upon those material objects peculiar social properties that those objects would not necessarily possess if they were not suspended within this very specific relation. —  Roughtheory.org
  • Marx then recapitulates the argument about the commodity fetish, as it manifests in relation to the money-form: the particular inversion that causes the money commodity to appear to have certain properties independently of its imbrication in a particular kind of social relation, such that the social relation appears to arise on the foundation provided by "a social property inherent in its nature" as a material object. —  Roughtheory.org
  • In C3-C7 the orientation of zygapophyses, the saddle-shape of vertebral body surfaces, and the imbrication of transverse processes suggest that the neck was more capable of dorsiflexion than lateral rotation. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • I think of frontier zones as spaces of imbrication, of mixing, of interdependence. —  TPMCafe
  • Kalicinski plication: Technique of ureteral imbrication for megaureter. —  Inside Surgery
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  1. = French imbrication; as imbricate + -ion.
 

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