degree of overlap

collocation in English

meaningsofdegreeandoverlap

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degree
noun
uk
/dɪˈɡriː/
us
/dɪˈɡriː/
(an) amount or level ...
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overlap
noun
uk
/ˈəʊ.və.læp/
us
/ˈoʊ.vɚ.læp/
the amount by which two things or activities cover the ...
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(Definition ofdegreeandoverlapfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdegree of overlap

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The high total number of diagnoses demonstrates thedegreeofoverlapwith psychiatric disorders in this group.
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We then establish thedegreeofoverlapor consistency between persistent income poverty (poor for three out of three years) and extreme deprivation.
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Subtyping of cattle isolates revealed a highdegreeofoverlapbetween cattle and human isolates.
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A lowdegreeofoverlapis consistent with low coverage in the mosaic.
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To evaluate thedegreeofoverlapamong clusters, we used the same criterion which was followed for the cells.
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A specifieddegreeofoverlapis called a phasing relationship, and a sequence of gestures with specified phasing relationships is gestural score.
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As concerns meaning, the labels used respectively are: similar, same, largedegreeofoverlap, similar.
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Thus, thedegreeofoverlapbetween these categories would be minimal.
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Thedegreeofoverlapdetermines the degree of qualification as a recommender.
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Thedegreeofoverlapin the aetiology of the latent factors is also assessed.
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They are functionally interdependent, present somedegreeofoverlap, and always occur in this order.
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Again, this highdegreeofoverlapwas seen for both patients and non-anxious controls.
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Our path analyses highlight thedegreeofoverlapbetween some home literacy measures, age, vocabulary, letter knowledge, and speech discrimination.
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The first consonant may sound longer when it has a lowdegreeofoverlapwith the second consonant.
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The different shades of gray indicate groups of neighboring cells with adegreeofoverlaphigher than 30%.
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The rationale is that different derivations of such recursive atoms could involve some amount of overlap (thedegreeofoverlapdepends upon the data).
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It is possible, therefore, that in some cases our results may have over-estimated thedegreeofoverlapbetween species niches.
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Thedegreeofoverlapwas expressed as the percentage of the dendriticfield area that is covered by its neighbor.
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With thisdegreeofoverlap, the sequences rarely have an audible internal release.
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