overlap

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" It's just a small point of overlap that gives me a tiny bit of insight.

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a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals"

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noun

a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals"

noun

the property of partial coincidence in time

noun

a flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for overlap.

noun

a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals"

noun

the property of partial coincidence in time

noun

a flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches"

verb

coincide partially or wholly; "Our vacations overlap"

verb

extend over and cover a part of; "The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city"

Example sentences

" It's just a small point of overlap that gives me a tiny bit of insight.

Maybe this is just broad stereotype, but I don't see a huge overlap in "Ruby people" and "GoDaddy people"

This lets you overlap human-contact time & gaming time.

Apparently you can shake a Kinect to make its field of view overlap with other kinects.

Yes, you can use them somewhat interchangeably, but that's life for you: things overlap.

It was an overlap of our youth, the loss of innocence, and the explosion of this new universe.

Rails is optimized for a certain set of opinions, which overlap about 80% with my own, and that's usually good enough for me.

There may be some overlap in domain, but they occupy different niches and will likely appeal to different crowds.

There's a theory that it was this overlap in hunting styles that made us natural "partners" and led to the close relationship we have today.

While there is overlap, Docker is mostly not viable as a dev environment tool alone, so it isn't a fair comparison.

There are sometimes partnerships between groups with different specialities; usually this occurs when there is an overlap in membership.

In addition to its international reach, ICQ has tremendous appeal among young, technically sophisticated Web users and there is remarkably little overlap with AOL."

Also, I imagine a significant chunk of posts to Twitter come from apps, many of which each use a single IP to post tons of content.> Is there a reason the same techniques used in E-Mail aren't applicable to Twitter?There's definitely some overlap.

I have a lot of friends that move every couple years, and the idea that they have to change their address at the same time is silly: that is the most stressful moment to be trying to move mail delivery and you can't usually overlap the old and new addresses to buffer mistakes.