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Overlapping

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That overlaps something else

    "A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists."

Noun
  1. 1
    The situation in which things overlap.

    "This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle."

  2. 2
    covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of overlap form-of, gerund, participle, present

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