Definition of Overlap

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Overlap

To lap over; to lap.

The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.

An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions.

Related Definitions:

Above, All, An, And, Another, As, Beyond, Conformable, Either, Extend, Extension, Geological, In, Lap, Lapping, Lower, Of, On, One, Or, Over, Overlap, Roof, Series, Six, Slate, Space, Than, The, Thing, To, Upper, When

Overlap Quotations

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
Ani DiFranco

Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.
Francis Crick

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.
Trevor Rabin

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.
Robert Kirkman

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.
Alva Noto

Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.
Roman Jakobson

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
Fred Saberhagen

Overlap Translations

overlap in Spanish is solapar, superponer, solaparse

Quotes