overlapping

That overlaps something else

Adjective

  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. - 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick., archived from the original on 11 Aug...

Forms

more overlapping most overlapping

Derived

nonoverlapping non-overlapping magisteria overgo overlappingly

Noun

  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. - 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The...

Forms

overlappings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of overlap