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Connected vs Overlapping - What's the difference?

connected | overlapping |

As adjectives the difference between connected and overlapping

is that connected is (usually with "well-"): having favorable rapport with a powerful entity while overlapping is pertaining to something that overlaps something else.

As verbs the difference between connected and overlapping

is that connected is (connect) while overlapping is .

As a noun overlapping is

the situation in which things overlap.

connected

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
  • (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
  • (mathematics, graph theory, of a directed graph) Having a path, either directed]] or undirected, connecting every pair of [[vertex, vertices.

    • Antonyms

    * disconnected

    Verb

    (head)
  • (connect)

    • overlapping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to something that overlaps something else.
    • 1851' ''A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the '''overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.'' — Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The situation in which things overlap.