Definition of Interlapping

1. interlap [v] - See also: interlap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Interlapping

interlaces
interlacing
interlacustrine
interladder
interlaid
interlamellar
interlaminar
interlaminar jelly
interlaminated
interlamination
interlaminations
interlanguage
interlanguages
interlap
interlapped
interlapping (current term)
interlaps
interlapse
interlapses
interlard
interlarded
interlarding
interlards
interlay
interlayer
interlayered
interlayering
interlayers
interlaying
interlayment

Literary usage of Interlapping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Explorations in Turkestan, Expedition of 1904: Prehistoric Civilizations of by Raphael Pumpelly (1908)
"... THE interlapping OF DEPOSITION ZONES EFFECTED BY CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS^ Owing to their low altitude and the hot column of air rising from them, ..."

2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"... must be regarded as a widely-expanded cake, thickest in the middle and thinning out at the edges, and interlapping there with other similar cakes. Fig. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Gas Institute by American Gas Institute (1908)
"This conveyor consists of interlapping pans made from soft steel sheets 3/i« in. thick. Each pan is about 15 in. long and by their ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"This is cut into strips 19 inches long and just wide enough to cut a double row of pens, with their points interlapping alternately. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"... of the muscle is supplied by one root, another by another, although there is certainly great interlapping of regions belonging to the individual roots, ..."

6. The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West by Emerson Hough (1918)
"The flocks of these strong men, carelessly interlapping, increased and multiplied amazingly. They were hardly looked upon as wealth. ..."

7. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1868)
"That route is presented by the interlapping valleys of the Kanawha and James Elvers in Virginia, connecting the channel of the Ohio and the channel of the ..."

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