Overlap

Look up overlap in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Overlap may mean one of:

• In music theory, overlap is a synonym for reinterpretation of a chord at the boundary of two musical phrases.
• In railway signalling, an overlap is the length of track beyond a stop signal that is proved to be clear of vehicles in the controls of the previous signal, as a safety margin.
• Overlap (road), a place where multiple road numbers overlap.
• Overlap-add, an efficient convolution method using FFT.
• In sailing, overlapping happens when two or more boats/yachts are not clear astern and not clear ahead.
• In dramatic speech, overlap means to start saying something, then have someone else start saying the same sentence but starting at a different time.

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.