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onlapped

onlapped is the simple past and past participle of onlap.

Meaning of onlap

Verb

onlap (third-person singular simple present onlaps, present participle onlapping, simple past and past participle onlapped)

  1. To form an onlap.
    • Elsewhere, many of the youngest volcanic plains units onlap tesserae at crustal plateau boundaries.1998 March 6, Roger J. Phillips, Vicki L. Hansen, “Geological Evolution of Venus: Rises, Plains, Plumes, and Plateaus”, in Science, volume 279, number 5356, →DOI, pages 1492–1497

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Questions about onlapped

What is onlapped the simple past and past participle of?
Onlapped is the simple past and past participle of onlap.

Words near onlapped in the dictionary

  1. onkos
  2. onkus
  3. onlaid
  4. onland
  5. onlap
  6. onlapped
  7. onlapping
  8. onlaps
  9. onlay
  10. onlaying
  11. onlays

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