overlapping adjective (SAME SPACE) Add to word list covering something partly by going over its edge, or covering part of the same space:

The meaning of OVERLAP is to extend over or past and cover a part of. How to use overlap in a sentence.

OVERLAP definition: to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate. See examples of overlap used in a sentence.

If you have two pieces of something, and one is covering a part of another, then they're overlapping.

This is an urgent matter of our national security, uncomfortably overlapping with our politics.

1. A part or portion that overlaps or is overlapped. 2. An instance of overlapping.

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Definition of overlap verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

That overlaps something else. The situation in which things overlap. There are five free sepals, overlapping in the bud, and, alternating with these, five free petals.

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