imbrication

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

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