Extend over and cover a part of

Usage examples of overlapping.

Jack, leading him to the side, and carefully following the admiring gaze of all eyes on the quarterdeck Stephen perceived an array of overlapping triangular sails along the bowsprit and beyond it, well beyond it.

They belong to the order of bristletails because of the three long filaments at their posterior end, but they get their name from their silvery, overlapping scales.

Laura and I picked milkweed pods and opened them, to feel the scale-shaped seeds overlapping like the skin of a dragon.

Incredibly devious conditions hatch cosmologies of telepathic misdirection - Mind screen movies overlapping make recordings ahead of leave before thinking was recorded - Our most precise data came from U.

Ships innumerable nuzzled at the endless line of docks, mast overspiring mast, and bowsprit overlapping bowsprit, till the eye was bewildered, as if by the confusion of branches in a leafless forest.

There the wall glows neon-bright, prodigal images splashed along its surface, overlapping, overwriting each other.

He was in some brightly lit corridor inlaid with a thousand intertwined and overlapping Pontifical emblems, the eye-baffling Labyrinth symbol repeated over and over.

The premaxillary region is elongated and bent downwards, overlapping the very deep lower jaw, which is similarly bent down.

In this scheme, this scheme of the second phase, we conceive of the Open Conspiracy as consisting of a great multitude and variety of overlapping groups, but now all organized for collective political, social, and educational as well as propagandist action.

The redundancy, overlapping responsibilities, wide-ranging writs, and fierce rivalries among the security services make it hard to conceal a coup for long, which is why the vast majority have failed.

The glands on which the flies rested, as well as those on the overlapping margin which had been brought into contact with the flies, were all secreting copiously.

Richard slowly turned each over, idly looking for anything that made sense to him as Zedd droned on about overlapping transpositional forks and triple duplexes bound to conjugated roots compromised by precession and sequential, proportional, binary inversions shrouding flawed bifurcations that the formulas revealed which could only be detected through Subtractive levorotatory.

What I saw was not a planet, but a multi-colored field of overlapping possibilities, the planet as a superposited array.

He showed them how to form the classical Roman Testudo, their shields overlapping and locked like the scales of an armadillo.

Venera tried on a vest made of verdigrised copper scales, added a skirt made of overlapping iron plates and weighed herself.