Meaning of overlapping in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• 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

• The situation in which things overlap.

adjective

• That overlaps something else