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interfingering

interfingering is the present participle and gerund of interfinger.

Meaning of interfinger

Verb

interfinger (third-person singular simple present interfingers, present participle interfingering, simple past and past participle interfingered)

  1. To interpenetrate in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.
    • The lagoon deposits overlie and interfinger with beach sands in SAV3 and SAV4, which overlie an early Holocene estuary deposit in SAV4.2001 May 18, Kevin O. Pope et al., “Origin and Environmental Setting of Ancient Agriculture in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica”, in Science, volume 292, number 5520, →DOI, pages 1370–1373

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Noun

interfingering (plural interfingerings)

  1. An interpenetration in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.

Forms of interfingering

pluralinterfingerings

Questions about interfingering

What does interfingering mean?
Interfingering means an interpenetration in long alternating strips like clasped fingers.
What is interfingering the present participle and gerund of?
Interfingering is the present participle and gerund of interfinger.
What part of speech is interfingering?
Interfingering is a noun.
What is the plural of interfingering?
The plural of interfingering is interfingerings.

Words near interfingering in the dictionary

  1. interfiles
  2. interfiling
  3. interfilter
  4. interfinger
  5. interfingered
  6. interfingering
  7. interfingerings
  8. interfingers
  9. interfirm
  10. interfirst
  11. interfix

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