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overˈlapping, vbl. n.
[f. overlap v. + -ing1.]
The action or condition expressed by the verb overlap; partial overlying or coincidence. In Fencing (quot. 1692): see overlap v. 1 d.
1692Sir W. Hope Fencing-Master 71 If he slipp my overlapping, I..make use of Binding. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xvi. §4. 302 This hook and overlapping of the bill could not be spared, for it forms the very instrument by which the bird climbs. 1851Turner Dom. Archit. I. i. 3 One of the periods where an overlapping of styles must be looked for. 1872Spectator 5 Oct. 1264 The foldings and overlappings of strata in mountainous regions. 1896[see coalescence 3]. 1935Discovery Sept. 278/1 Room within this waveband..to accommodate several independent high-definition sound and picture channels without overlapping or interference. 1942Amer. Speech XVII. 46 ‘Coarticulation’ and ‘overlapping’. 1956Jakobson & Halle Fund. of Lang. ii. 14 The so-called overlapping of phonemes confirms the manifestly relational character of the distinctive features... The same sound [e] in one position implements the diffuse, and in another, the compact term of the same opposition. 1963B. Fozard Instrumentation Nucl. Reactors x. 112 Overlapping, i.e. failure to resolve the pulses, may cause errors of measurement in three main ways.
b. concr. A part that overlaps.
1858G. Macdonald Phantastes xxi. 269 His body-armour was somewhat clumsily made,..the overlappings in the lower part had more play than necessary. |