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LAPPING

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Dictionary entry overview: What does lapping mean?

• LAPPING (noun)
The noun LAPPING has 1 sense:

1. covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)

Familiarity information: LAPPING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LAPPING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

imbrication; lapping; overlapping

Hypernyms ("lapping" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

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