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overtaking

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overtaking

  1. present participle and gerund of overtake

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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.

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