Definition of "imbrication"

imbrication

noun
countable and uncountable, plural imbrications
1. A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish.
2. (medicine) Overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or correctional surgery.
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  SMAS flaps or SMASectomies are considered imbrications in this chapter. SMAS tightening is probably a more accurate description with 'open' SMAS techniques referring to imbrication and 'closed' SMAS techniques referring to plication.
  2009, Joseph Niamtu, “Face-lifts”, in Michael S. Kaminer, Kenneth A. Arndt, Jeffrey S. Dover, Thomas E. Rohrer, Christopher B. Xachary, editors, Atlas of Cosmetic Surgery, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Saunders), page 528
3. (geology) A sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.
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  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.
  1991, D. L. Southwick, G. B. Morey, “Tectonic Imbrication and Foredeep Development in the Penokean Orogen, East-Central Minnesota - An Interpretation Based on Regional Geophysics and the Results of Test-Drilling”, in Bulletin, US Geological Society, published 1904, C, page C7
4. (linguistics) A phenomenon occurring in many Bantu languages in which morphemes interweave in certain morphophonological conditions.
  Quotations
  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).
  2014, Sharon Inkelas, The Interplay of Morphology and Phonology, Oxford University Press, page 358
5. (programming) The use of relative positioning, often by varying amounts of indentation, to define hierarchical relationships between elements of code.
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  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.
  2010 January 8, Charles Plessy, “Upstream MEtadata GAthered with YAml (UMEGAYA)”, in Debian Wiki‎ (wiki), The Debian Project: Documentation Team, archived from the original on 2023-05-29

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