noun
definition
The situation in which things are dovetailed.
Examples of dovetailing in a Sentence
Dovetailing is superior to glue and staples, but may be hard to find inexpensively; look for staples over allen bolts in that case.
Drawers should pull out smoothly and dovetailing should be tight and secure.
Darwin and his generation were deeply imbued with the Butlerian tradition, and regarded the organic world as almost a miracle of adaptation, of the minute dovetailing of structure, function and environment.
Recent discoveries have shown that representatives of the two floras coexisted in certain regions; there was, in fact, a dovetailing between strata in Europe.
The hiatus is striking, but it cannot be held to necessitate an editorial dovetailing of two separate epistles.