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Overlapping vs Obvolute - What's the difference?

overlapping | obvolute |

As adjectives the difference between overlapping and obvolute

is that overlapping is pertaining to something that overlaps something else while obvolute is overlapping; contorted; convoluted.

As a verb overlapping

is .

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.

    • obvolute

    English

    Alternative forms

    * obvoluted

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • overlapping; contorted; convoluted
  • (botany) Having two opposite leaves, each with one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other.
  • (botany) Having a circle of several leaves or petals which overlap in that manner.
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