overlapping

English

Verb

overlapping

1. present participle and gerund of overlap

Adjective

overlapping (comparative more overlapping, superlative most overlapping)

1. That overlaps something else
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.

Derived terms

• nonoverlapping
• non-overlapping magisteria
• overgo
• overlappingly

Translations

adjective — see also superposed

• Finnish: päällekkäinen, limittäinen (fi)
• French: chevauchant (fr), recouvrant (fr)
• Georgian: ნაწილობრივ გადაფარებული (nac̣ilobriv gadaparebuli), ნაწილობრივ თანამთხვეული (nac̣ilobriv tanamtxveuli), ნაწილობრივ თანმხვედრი (nac̣ilobriv tanmxvedri)
• Greek: επικαλυπτικός m (epikalyptikós)
• Italian: sovrapposto (it)
• Māori: īnakinaki
• Portuguese: superposto, sobreposto (pt)
• Spanish: solapado (es), traslapado (es), imbricado (es)
• Swedish: överlappande (sv)
• Tagalog: unsod-unsod

Noun

overlapping (plural overlappings)

1. The situation in which things overlap.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 10:

     This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.

Translations

the situation in which things overlap — see also overlap,‎ superposition

• Finnish: limittäisyys
• French: chevauchement (fr)
• Indonesian: tumpang tindih
• Malay: pertindihan, pertindanan
• Portuguese: sobreposição (pt) f
• Russian: нахлёст (naxljóst), перекрытие (ru) (perekrytije)
• Spanish: traslape (es) m, solapamiento m, imbricación f, solape (es) m