Synonyms:
imbrication, overlapping, lapping
Meaning: covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
Usage examples
He felt the good and bad within himself inextricably mingled and overlapping.
From this point the three coincided--at times parting and running parallel, for a score of yards or so, but again coming together and overlapping one another.
Her fair hair, which had faded without turning grey, was still parted in flat overlapping points on her forehead, and the straight nose that divided her pale blue eyes was only a little more pinched about the nostrils than when the portrait had been painted.
Refraction analysed out the various constituents of white light and displayed them in the form of a series of overlapping images of the aperture, each of a different colour; this series of images we call a spectrum, and the operation we now call spectrum analysis.