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Overlapping vs Reduplicating - What's the difference?

overlapping | reduplicating |

As verbs the difference between overlapping and reduplicating

is that overlapping is while reduplicating is .

As an adjective overlapping

is pertaining to something that overlaps something else.

As a noun overlapping

is the situation in which things overlap.

overlapping

English

Verb

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    • 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.

    • reduplicating

    English

    Verb

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