overlapping
/OW1 V ER0 L AE0 P IH0 NG/verb
- 1
To extend over and partly cover something.
“The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.”
- 2
To have an area, range, character or function in common.
“The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges.”
- 3
Of sets: to have some elements in common.
“The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians).”
- 4
To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
Synonyms
noun
- 1
The situation in which things overlap.
adjective
- 1
That overlaps something else
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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overlap, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overlapping