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To overlap is to extend into an area or time covered by something or someone else. (verb)

When you work doing sales in a territory where there is another salesman, this is an example of a situation where you overlap with the other salesman.

An overlap is a period of time or an area covered by multiple people or things, or a situation in which multiple people share responsibility or a common interest. (noun)

When requirements are set by two different guidebooks, but some of those requirements are the same in both, the requirements that are the same in both are an example of an overlap.

See overlap in Webster's New World College Dictionary