Associations to the word «Imbrication»

Wiktionary

IMBRICATION, noun. A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish
IMBRICATION, noun. (medicine) overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or correctional surgery
IMBRICATION, noun. (geology) a sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.

Dictionary definition

IMBRICATION, noun. Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne