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overlapping::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | imbrication, lapping |
| Type of | covering |
| Derivation | overlap |
Examples of overlapping
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This is a typical problem on Long Island, the land of overlapping jurisdictions.
From the newsday.com
Lay down the white arm trim first, then the red felt overlapping the white felt.
From the dispatch.com
From what we learned, this was occurring in an overlapping way within the brain.
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Then there is the task of getting all the overlapping agencies on the same page.
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I agree with Tiger Mom's comment about overlapping acceptances at Elite Schools.
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Make an overlapping layer of tomato on top of the kale, covering entire surface.
From the newsday.com
It creates a maze of competing agencies, all bent on rival overlapping projects.
From the economist.com
Kingsbury said she is exploring the possibility of overlapping grand jury terms.
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Tom Thorpe of Oxford Oceanics, a consultancy, blames several overlapping causes.
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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. ...
