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Overlapping vs Interrelated - What's the difference?

overlapping | interrelated |

As adjectives the difference between overlapping and interrelated

is that overlapping is pertaining to something that overlaps something else while interrelated is having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.

As a verb overlapping

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun overlapping

is the situation in which things overlap.

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.

    • interrelated

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.

    • Derived terms

    * interrelatedness

    Related terms

    * interrelate * interrelation

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