overlapping
verb
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To extend over and partly cover something.
Example: The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.
To have an area, range, character or function in common.
Example: The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges.
Of sets: to have some elements in common.
Example: The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians).
To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
noun
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The situation in which things overlap.
adjective
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That overlaps something else