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Area of common interest
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overlap
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n. 1 Something that overlaps or is overlapped 2 (context rugby English) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may ''exploit the overlap'' by using their superior ...
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In mathematics , computer science and logic , overlap , as a property of the reduction rules in term rewriting system , describes a situation where a number of different reduction rules specify potentially contradictory ways of reducing a reducible expression ...
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n. a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals" [syn: convergence , intersection ] the property of partial coincidence in time a flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles ...
Usage examples of overlap.
The multigenerational ripple effect of prolonged illness, grieving, and accommodating overlap in the Megregian-Johannessen homes, as they do in so many families.
Her morning surgery had spread until it had almost overlapped the early afternoon antenatal clinic, and her list of house-calls had lasted right up to the start of evening surgery.
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.
Saviard informs us that he saw a patient at the Hotel Dieu who had a horn like that of a ram, instead of a nail, on each great toe, the extremities of which were turned to the metatarsus and overlapped the whole of the other toes of each foot.
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.
Lighter spots showed along the broad chin under a mouthful of wicked incisors that overlapped its upper and lower lips in a cruel, merciless grin.
Too many warring shades of light and darkness overlapped the dark harbor water, turning it alternately into a bright, reflective surface or into a dark and depthless one.
They were mostly among the trees, which gave cover from the foot of their ridge right up to the walls of the chateau, but some had overlapped onto the open flank where newly cut hay lay in sopping rows among the stubble.
The British line looked so very frail, but it overlapped the column and drowned it in fire.
Cat overlapped the front edges and held them while Butterfly wrapped the wide, stiff sash three times around her and tied it in back.
When Hanshiro handed him the rolled paper, he stowed it carefully in the gap where the left side of his jacket overlapped the right.
Their shields overlapped, their lines formed concentric circles about Huy, ringing him in completely, and the plumes of their head-dresses were the foaming crest of a menacing wave about him.
The area where the two overlapped had been colored red, and three small holes had been punched into the design about an inch apart at the left, center and right.