overlapping

overlapping

1. present participle of overlap

overlapping (comparative more overlapping, superlative most overlapping)

1. That overlaps something else

   1851 A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists. — Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

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, page 10:

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