overlapping
English
Verb
overlapping
Adjective
overlapping (comparative more overlapping, superlative most overlapping)
- That overlaps something else
- 1851 A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists. — Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
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Noun
overlapping (plural overlappings)
- The situation in which things overlap.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 10:
- This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.
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the situation in which things overlap
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