Overlap

[əʊvə'læp] or ['ovəlæp]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the property of partial coincidence in time.

(noun.) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; 'there was no overlap between their proposals'.

(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'.

卡洛琳手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t. & i.) To lap over; to lap.

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

(n.) 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.

多米尼克整理

解釋/意思:

v.t. to lap over: to lay so that the edge of one rests on that of another.—n. O′verlap (geol.) a disposition of strata where the upper beds extend beyond the bottom beds of the same series.

校對:拉弗尔斯