imbrication

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish. countable,uncountable
  2. Overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or in correctional or reconstructive surgery. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. A sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  4. A phenomenon occurring in many Bantu languages in which morphemes interweave in certain morphophonological conditions. countable,uncountable
    — 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).
  5. The use of relative positioning, often by varying amounts of indentation, to define hierarchical relationships between elements of code. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

imbrications plural

词汇关系

相关词
imbricate imbricated

词源

From French imbrication, from Latin imbricātus, from imbricō, from imbrex. By surface analysis, imbricate + -ion.
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