Usually means: Layers added for additional information.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word overlays:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. overlays: Merriam-Webster
  2. overlays: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overlays: Vocabulary.com
  4. Overlays, overlays: Wordnik
  5. overlays: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. overlays: Wiktionary
  7. overlays: Dictionary.com
  8. overlays: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overlays: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overlays: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overlays: Medical dictionary

(Note: See overlay as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (overlay)

verb:  (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.
verb:  To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
verb:  (transitive, now rare, archaic) To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.
verb:  (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
verb:  (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
noun:  (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
noun:  (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
noun:  (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
noun:  (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
noun:  A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
noun:  (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
noun:  (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
noun:  (Scotland) A cravat.
noun:  A covering over something else.
▸ Also see overlay





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