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Crosscutting vs Overlapping - What's the difference?

crosscutting | overlapping |

As verbs the difference between crosscutting and overlapping

is that crosscutting is while overlapping is .

As an adjective overlapping is

pertaining to something that overlaps something else.

As a noun overlapping is

the situation in which things overlap.

crosscutting

English

Verb

(head)

    • 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.