overlapping

adj, noun — 2 senses

overlapping

adj

1

That overlaps something else

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

Derived terms: nonoverlapping, non-overlapping magisteria, overgo, overlappingly

overlapping

noun

1

The situation in which things overlap.

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

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