Usually means: Printing one ink over another.
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  1. overprinting: Merriam-Webster
  2. overprinting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overprinting: Vocabulary.com
  4. overprinting: Wiktionary
  5. overprinting: Dictionary.com
  6. Overprinting (geology), Overprinting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. overprinting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overprinting: Encyclopedia

(Note: See overprint as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Overprinting)

noun:    Knock-outwithout trapping Knock-outwith trapping Overprinting
noun:  a geological process that superimposes a set of characteristics on rock that partially obscure earlier characteristics.


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