- an overlapping, as of tiles or scales
- an ornamental pattern like or suggesting this
Origin of imbrication
see imbricateimbrication
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Noun
(plural imbrications)
- a set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish
- (medicine) overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or correctional surgery
- (geology) a sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.
Origin
From French imbrication
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