overlapping

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Verb

1. present participle of overlap#English|overlap

Adjective

overlapping

1. 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, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Moby Dick.]

Translations

• French: chevauchant, recouvrant
• Italian: sovrapposto
• Portuguese: superposto, sobreposto
• Spanish: solapado, traslapado, superpuesto

Noun

overlapping (plural overlappings)

1. The situation in which things overlap.

Translations

• Portuguese: sobreposição
• Russian: нахлёст
• Spanish: superposición

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