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Meaning of overlapping

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

overlapping

verb

Definitions

  1. To extend over and partly cover something.

    Example: The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.

  2. To have an area, range, character or function in common.

    Example: The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges.

  3. Of sets: to have some elements in common.

    Example: The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians).

  4. To have some similar nucleotide sequences.

noun

Definitions

  1. The situation in which things overlap.

adjective

Definitions

  1. That overlaps something else