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overlap::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | convergence, intersection |
| Type of | representation, internal representation, mental representation |
| Has types | crossroads, interface |
there was no overlap between their proposals.
overlap::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | co-occurrence, concurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
Examples of overlap
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For example, the audiences are about equal in size and have very little overlap.
From the techcrunch.com
Often, the two overlap, and it's hard to determine whether one causes the other.
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Over the last several decades, the overlap is about 60%-70% in the acting races.
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There's some overlap, and it's not clear which channels will make the final cut.
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Geographically, the events are far enough apart that there won't be any overlap.
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From Suez to Kashmir, the old categories have changed, or have begun to overlap.
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Rarely does my fondness for schlock horror flicks overlap with my politics beat.
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The graph lines for gold and oil almost overlap as if they were commodity twins.
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Healthy brains produced a cluster that did not overlap with any of the diseases.
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- A representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals"
- Coincide partially or wholly; "Our vacations overlap"
- Extend over and cover a part of; "The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city"
- The property of partial coincidence in time
- Lap: a flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches"
- (overlapping) imbrication: covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
- An overlap in railway signalling is the length of track beyond a stop signal that is proved to be clear of vehicles in the controls of the previous signal, as a safety margin.
- A concurrency, overlap, or coincidence in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers. When it is two freeways that share the same right-of-way, it is sometimes called a common section or commons.
- In mathematics, computer science and logic, overlap, as a property of the reduction rules in term rewriting system, describes a situation where a number of different reduction rules specify potentially contradictory ways of reducing a reducible expression (or redex) within a term. ...
