overcoat

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ coat.

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Noun

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overcoat (plural overcoats)

  1. A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.

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Verb

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overcoat (third-person singular simple present overcoats, present participle overcoating, simple past and past participle overcoated)

  1. (transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.
    • 2004, James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications, page 128:
      One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.

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