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Two things trying to occupy the same space, pretending that's fine.
means To partly cover or coincide with something else, sharing the same space, time, or range.
from A straightforward compound from 'over' plus 'lap' — the 'lap' here being the old verb meaning to fold or wrap, the same one behind 'lapel' and the lapping of waves folding onto shore. Something that overlaps literally folds over the edge of something else, like one shingle laid across another.
- venn diagram
- the whole point lives in the middle bit
- scheduling
- the reason meetings eat other meetings
- biology
- overlapping genes let viruses pack more punch
- etymology
- literally lap meaning fold, since the 1700s