overlapping
Meaning of overlapping
verb
- To extend over and partly cover something.
The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges.
- Of sets: to have some elements in common.
The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians).
- To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
noun
The situation in which things overlap.
adjective
That overlaps something else
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Hyphenation of overlapping
over-lap-ping
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- overlapping is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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Words that rhyme with overlapping
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