overtaking

English

Verb

overtaking

1. present participle and gerund of overtake

Noun

overtaking (plural overtakings)

1. The act by which one thing overtakes another.

   Antonym: undertaking (passing a vehicle on the curbside)

   • 2007, Majid Ali Khan, Coalition Formation and Teamwork in Embodied Agents, page 61:

     Figure 3.12 shows the number of overtakings as a function of the density of the vehicles. In general, the smaller the number of overtakings, the safer the traffic.

Derived terms

• overtaking lane

Translations

act

Finnish: ohitus (fi)

Further reading

• overtaking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• taking over