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onlapping

onlapping is the present participle and gerund 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 onlapping

What is onlapping the present participle and gerund of?
Onlapping is the present participle and gerund of onlap.

Words near onlapping in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onlapping (page history and authors); onlap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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