overlapping

English

overlapping

overlapping (comparative more overlapping, superlative most overlapping)

That overlaps something else
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick.‎, archived from the original on 11 August 2014:
  A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.

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)
Maori: īnakinaki
Portuguese: superposto, sobreposto (pt)
Spanish: solapado (es), traslapado (es), superpuesto (es)
Swedish: överlappande (sv)
Tagalog: unsod-unsod

overlapping (plural overlappings)

The situation in which things overlap.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 10:
  This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.

the situation in which things overlap