Usually means: Printing additional ink on existing.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word overprint:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. overprint: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overprint: Merriam-Webster
  3. overprint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overprint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overprint: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overprint: Vocabulary.com
  7. overprint: Wordnik
  8. overprint: Wiktionary
  9. overprint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overprint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overprint: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. overprint: Dictionary.com
  13. Overprint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. overprint: Rhymezone
  15. overprint: FreeDictionary.org
  16. overprint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. overprint: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Overprint: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overprint: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (philately) The addition of new text on a previously printed stamp, usually to add a surcharge or change the face value.
noun:  (geology) The set of petrological, structural, and/or mineralogical characteristics superimposed onto rock by the action of geological processes over deep time, by analogy with the original sense of the word.
verb:  To print over what has already been printed.
verb:  (transitive, philately) To add an overprint to (a stamp).
verb:  (transitive) To print too many copies of.
verb:  (printing) To overlap different colours to avoid gaps.
verb:  (geology) To superimpose a new set of petrological, structural, and/or mineralogical characteristics onto rock by the action of geological processes over deep time, by analogy with the original sense of the word.

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